Cove
Cove is a baby name of English origin, meaning A sheltered bay.
What Cove means
A sheltered bay.
Cove is short — 4 letters, and ends on a vowel, which tends to make a name sound open and carry well when called across a room.
Where Cove comes from
English names come from a long layering of Anglo-Saxon, Norman French, and biblical sources. Many began as surnames, place names, or occupations before they were ever used as first names.
Cove is recorded as English in origin. Browse other English names.
How popular is Cove?
In the baby name rankings we track, Cove falls outside the top 100. That puts it in the broad middle ground where most names live: familiar to those who know it, uncommon enough to still feel like a choice.
The character of Cove
We group Cove under Ocean and water and the sea — an unusual pairing, and often the reason a name feels the way it does. Each theme opens a full list of names sharing it.
Names like Cove
These share Cove's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Saylor — Boat captain; of the sea.
- Kai — The sea.
- Arnav — The ocean; the sea.
- Dylan — Son of the sea.
- Maren — Of the sea.
- Moana — Ocean; the deep sea.
- Nerissa — From the sea.
- Pelagia — Of the open sea.
- Tao — Great waves.
- Bay — An inlet of the sea; the laurel.
- Lake — A still body of water.
- Rain — Falling water; a blessing.