Dove

Nature name

"dove, a bird"

Updated Wed Feb 19 2025

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Dove Origin and Meaning

The name Dove is a girl's name of English origin meaning "dove, a bird".

One of the new bird names, like Lark and Wren, this one's associated with the billing and cooing sounds of love. Soft and gentle, Dove also has the admirable association with peace.

Dove was actually an early bird, used as a first name in the seventeenth century and in the U.S. Top 1000 through the 1890's.

One admirable surname association is with Rita Dove, the Pulitzer Prize winning poet and former United States Poet Laureate.

# 940 in the US

Dove Rank in US Top 1000

# 359 on Nameberry

Dove Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

Dove Popularity

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Famous People Named Dove

Dove Cameron (born Chloe Celeste Hosterman)
American actress
Dove Garrett
American prima ballerina
Dove Mellencamp Arroyave (b. 2020)
daughter of Teddi Mellencamp and Edwin Arroyave

Dove in Pop Culture

Dove Isabeau
title character of a book by Jane Yolen
Dovasary "Dove" Balitang
character from Tamora Pierce's "Daughter of the Lioness" series
"Dove
" one of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's pet names for his wife and muse Lizzie Siddal
Dovewing
character in the "Warriors" series by Erin Hunter
Peleia meaning "dove" was an ancient Greek title for female seers
,such as the Peleiades (Doves) of Dodona