girls:
12 births since 2022
#5704 (0th percentile)
boys:
56 births since 2008
#4530 (1st percentile)
overall:
68 births since 2008
#7671 (1st percentile)
The name Kovi is the #7,671 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 68 recorded births since 2008. This represents the 0.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,530 (1.2% percentile) for all time with 56 births since 2008. For girls, it ranks #5,704 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 12 births since 2022.
Kovi first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2008 (2008 for boys and 2022 for girls). Birth data for Kovi is available in 8 out of the 16 years between 2008 and 2023 (8 years for boys and 2 years for girls). 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.
The name Kovi has been given predominantly to boys, with 82.4% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 54.5% of babies named Kovi were boys.
For boys, Kovi reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #895) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). Over the past 5 years, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Kovi ranks #910 for boys (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 55.1% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Kovi reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #956) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). Currently, Kovi ranks #947 for girls (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 73.2% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kovi".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Kovi is pronounced as KOH-vee, which has 2 syllables.
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