Nova
Recorded for both sexesGen Alpha2025 rank
#46
down −7 places
2025 births
4,657
down −415 births
All-time births
55,783
8% of them in 2025
More common than
99%
of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 2022
- 5,927 births
- Best rank
- #32
- in 2021
- First recorded
- 1885
- #652 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 2013
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 141 of 146
- unbroken
Top five years
- 20225,927#32Peak
- 20215,574#32
- 20235,282#35
- 20245,072#39
- 20205,006#38
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #32 in 2021 · peak births 5,927 in 2022
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 5% boys■ 95% girls
3,227 boys · 55,783 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Nova has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.