Names / Boy names
Dover
Current rank
—
outside the top 1,000
All-time peak
#2,374
in 1922
First recorded
1914
in U.S. data
Children named
140
since 1914
Popularity over time
Annual U.S. children given the name · Peak #2,374 in 1922 · Source: Social Security Administration
Meaning & background
(DOH-vur): water. Crisp and rare. I can see the appeal, though some will think of the place before the name. Stateside, it first appears in 1914. It now sits outside the national top 1,000, which keeps it uncommon. Roughly 140 people have been given the name to date — a true rarity.