Ova
Recorded 1881–2023 · United States
Ova was most popular in 1918, when 71 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,588 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 1,892 people named Ova.
Ova over time
How old is the name Ova?
Ova first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1881, which makes it about 144 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 78 of the 145 years since.
How many people are named Ova?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 1,892 American births named Ova between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 174 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Ova in 2025?
Ova was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Ova getting more or less popular?
Ova is new. It was not recorded at all a decade ago and averaged 9 births a year across 2021–2025.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Ova a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Ova is a unisex name — 72.1% of the 1,892 Americans given it were girls and 27.9% were boys. It changed hands: since 1932 it has gone mainly to girls, having gone mainly to boys before that. In births since 2016 it is 100% girls and 0% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Ova?
Roughly 174 Americans named Ova are alive today — 9% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 82 years old, and half are between 70 and 89.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Ova is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org