Given name
Synnove
“gift of the sun”
Synnove is a variant of Sunniva. One English interpretation is “gift of the sun.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Synnove is a variant of Sunniva. One English interpretation is “gift of the sun.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Synnove is a variant of Sunniva. An origin associated with Sunniva is Old English.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2014. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Synnove through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 29
- 0 boys · 29 girls
- Most popular year
- 2019
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #14,744 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 14,744 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 7 in 2019.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Synnove’s family of names
Synnove has a related form in Sunniva.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.