Covey

A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 20 babies a year in England and Wales.

Babies a year
20
England and Wales, 2025
Rarity
Rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
#1359
20 babies

Covey by the numbers

In 2025, 20 babies in England and Wales were named Covey. In the US, 9 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

For the size of the two countries, it is given far more often in England and Wales than in the US.

Its American peak was 10 babies in 2010, making it a 2010s name.

What we can tell you about Covey

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Covey. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Coreyfrom the hollow; possibly descendant of core666 in the US (2017)
  • Covesmall bay or inlet87 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Codeyhelpful; a form of Cody6 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Coley25 in the US (2017)
  • Cobey4 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Coven5 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Covey

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