Dovie
Origin
Modern American
Syllables
2
Peak era
1890s/1920s
Today
▬ Steady
Meaning
“A pet name from dove, connoting gentleness; common in Appalachian/Southern US naming from the late 1800s, sometimes short for Dorothea.”
Popularity, 1890–2024
peak 1890s2020s
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Dovie peaked in the 1890s and the 1920s in nearly equal measure.
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