Dovey

girls:

113 births since 1900

#5603 (2nd percentile)

overall:

113 births since 1900

#7626 (1st percentile)

Popularity Trends

The name Dovey is the #7,626 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 113 recorded births since 1900. This represents the 1.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,603 (1.9% percentile) for all time with 113 births since 1900.

Dovey first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1900 (first recorded for girls in 1900). Birth data for Dovey is available in 17 out of the 124 years between 1900 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.

For girls, Dovey reached its peak popularity in 1925, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #610) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1900, with 22 births per million (ranked 0.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Dovey ranks #946 for girls (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 15.6% of its peak share of births.

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dovey".

1900 2023 19002023

Key Statistics

Total Births
113
Peak Births
10
Peak Year
1925
First Recorded
1900
Peak Percentile
0.7%
Current Percentile
0.1%
Peak Rank
#610
Current Rank
#946
Female statistics

How to Pronounce Dovey

Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Dovey. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.

Our model is 55.8% confident that Dovey is pronounced as DUH-vee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DOH-vee, at 30.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.

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55.8%
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DUH-vee (2 syllables)
55.8% confidence
D AH1 V IY0
DOH-vee (2 syllables)
30.2% confidence
D OW1 V IY0
duh-VAY (2 syllables)
Verified
14.0% confidence
D AH0 V EY1

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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About Pronunciation Data

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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like D AH1 V IY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.

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