Tove
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Tove är en dansk form av → Tova
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Tove is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country, where it is the 84th most common given name.
- NONorway1 in 413(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 514
- SESweden1 in 1.2K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Sources
- 149 (measured from records)
- 1 in 413 (inferred from the name graph)
13,236 people, 2025
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Tove är en dansk form av → Tova. Kända namnbärare är den danska författaren Tove Ditlevsen (1917–76) och den finlandssvenska Tove Jansson (1914–2001). I den rikssvenska almanackan 5 mars och i den finlandssvenska 12 december. Även ett mansnamn Tove har förekommit, särskilt i Sydsverige. Det var ursprungligen en smekform till namn som → Torvald.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tove counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
13,236 people counted by SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891), 2025. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Tove is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
1 (f.) Danish and Norwegian: from the Old Norse female personal name Tófa , a short form of orfríðr (see TURID ). 2 (m.) Swedish: short form, used as early as the Viking period, of TORVALD . Variant (of 2): Tuve . Top
as a word
In men, very. LIwaanya gbéla tove
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Tove Janssonb. 1914FIFinnish children's writer and illustrator (1914–2001)
- Tove Ditlevsenb. 1917DKDanish poet and author (1917–1976)
- Ragnhild Hvegerb. 1920DKnot in their usual nameDanish swimmer (1920-2011)
- Tove Nilsenb. 1952NONorwegian author
- Tove Christensenb. 1973CACanadian actor and producer
- Tove Edfeldtb. 1983SESwedish actress
- Tove Lob. 1987SESwedish singer
- Tove Styrkeb. 1992SESwedish singer and songwriter
- Tove Alexanderssonb. 1992SESwedish female orienteer and ski orienteer
- Tove Enblomb. 1994SESwedish association football player (born 1994)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 35 sources across 19 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Tove a male or female name?
- Tove is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Tove mean?
- Recorded meaning: Tove är en dansk form av → Tova.
- What are other forms of the name Tove?
- In the etymology graph, Thor, Tova and Thora are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Turid.
- In which country does Tove have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 13 thousand people named Tove, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tove.
- Where is Tove most common?
- Tove is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 413 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Tove?
- In Norway, the national register counted 13,236 people named Tove in 2025, about 1 in 413 residents.
- How common is Tove compared with other names?
- In Norway, Tove is the 84th most common given name of 25,788 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/toveThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Tove” — the 84th most common given name in Norway. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.