Tovah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- TOH-vuh
- Origin
- Hebrew
- US rank, 2025
- #8,858 for girls
Tovah is a girls' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “good”. In 2025 it ranked 8,858th for girls in the US (11 babies).
What does Tovah mean?
Hebrew: spelling of Tova; Hebrew word; also a Swedish name from Old Norse Tofa
“good”
In Hebrew Tova means good; the Swedish name Tova is unrelated, coming from the Old Norse Tofa.
Meaning borrowed from Tova.
Is Tovah a girl's or a boy's name?
Tovah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 11 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Tovah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #8,858among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 11about 1 in 150,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steadyup 7% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 11 girls in the US were named Tovah, making it the 8,858th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,208th. Its busiest year was 1979, with 37 girls. It first appears in the records in 1976.
2025 had fewer girls named Tovah than any year since 2014.
Half of all the girls named Tovah in the US since 1880 were born between 1983 and 2014, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 77 girls in the US were given Tovah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,026, up from #8,858 for this spelling alone.
- Tova 66
- Tovah 11
Tovah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #8,858 |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,639 |
| 2023 | 19 | #6,164 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,536 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,019 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,208 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,338 |
| 2018 | 14 | #7,758 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,295 |
| 2016 | 14 | #7,985 |
| 2015 | 12 | #8,926 |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,512 |
| 2013 | 11 | #9,607 |
| 2012 | 16 | #7,452 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,370 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,267 |
| 2009 | 16 | #7,676 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,525 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,125 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,415 |
| 2005 | 12 | #8,878 |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,617 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,319 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,240 |
| 2001 | 11 | #8,751 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,574 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,472 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,254 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,065 |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,576 |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,581 |
| 1992 | 6 | #11,730 |
| 1991 | 9 | #8,580 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,297 |
| 1989 | 6 | #10,841 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,386 |
| 1987 | 21 | #3,980 |
| 1986 | 12 | #5,754 |
| 1985 | 21 | #3,851 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,538 |
| 1983 | 28 | #2,974 |
| 1982 | 18 | #4,166 |
| 1981 | 31 | #2,847 |
| 1980 | 37 | #2,537 |
| 1979 | 37 | #2,477 |
| 1978 | 31 | #2,680 |
| 1977 | 0 | – |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,154 |
Names like Tovah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Hannah Micah Delilah Selah Mariah Mia Savannah Leah Talia Sarah Gianna Brielle
Other spellings of Tovah
More Hebrew names
Noah Isabella Elijah James Jack Ava Jude Ezra Benjamin Isaac Jacob Ethan Daniel Samuel Elias Mateo
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Tovah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/tovah, updated 20 October 2026.