Cavan
- #3,450 for boys in 2025, 33 births
- Peak · boys
- 2002 · 65 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,714since 1969
Cavan over time
Rank among boys' names. Cavan has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,450 | 33 |
| 2024 | #4,200 | 25 |
| 2023 | #3,712 | 30 |
| 2022 | #3,879 | 28 |
| 2021 | #3,427 | 33 |
| 2020 | #3,734 | 28 |
| 2019 | #2,943 | 41 |
| 2018 | #3,524 | 31 |
| 2017 | #3,193 | 36 |
| 2016 | #2,726 | 44 |
| 2015 | #2,766 | 43 |
| 2014 | #2,429 | 52 |
| 2013 | #1,989 | 69 |
| 2012 | #2,448 | 51 |
| 2011 | #2,403 | 52 |
| 2010 | #2,375 | 53 |
| 2009 | #2,010 | 69 |
| 2008 | #1,874 | 77 |
| 2007 | #2,117 | 64 |
| 2006 | #2,176 | 59 |
| 2005 | #1,813 | 71 |
| 2004 | #2,452 | 45 |
| 2003 | #1,936 | 60 |
| 2002 | #1,772 | 65 |
| 2001 | #2,386 | 41 |
| 2000 | #2,674 | 34 |
| 1999 | #2,462 | 36 |
| 1998 | #2,552 | 33 |
| 1997 | #2,502 | 32 |
| 1996 | #3,830 | 17 |
| 1995 | #4,280 | 14 |
| 1994 | #2,685 | 27 |
| 1993 | #3,246 | 20 |
| 1992 | #2,532 | 28 |
| 1991 | #4,476 | 12 |
| 1990 | #2,952 | 21 |
| 1989 | #3,205 | 18 |
| 1988 | #3,705 | 13 |
| 1987 | #3,339 | 14 |
| 1986 | #2,510 | 21 |
| 1985 | #3,401 | 13 |
| 1984 | #2,824 | 16 |
| 1983 | #2,912 | 15 |
| 1982 | #3,282 | 13 |
| 1981 | #2,204 | 23 |
| 1980 | #4,134 | 9 |
| 1979 | #3,569 | 11 |
| 1978 | #3,070 | 13 |
| 1977 | #3,386 | 11 |
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| 1975 | #3,941 | 8 |
| 1974 | #3,120 | 11 |
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| 1972 | #3,963 | 7 |
| 1971 | #3,370 | 9 |
| 1970 | #3,836 | 7 |
| 1969 | #3,314 | 8 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Cavan! It came in at #3,314, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1973, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Cavan is popular in 2025
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- Top 10
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- 501+
- Not published
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| Pennsylvania | #1,231 | 5 | 1 in 10,452 |
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See more about Cavan
- 284 spots since 2020 (#3,734 → #3,450)
- 684 spots since 2015 (#2,766 → #3,450)
- Debuted 1969
- Peaked 2002 at #1,772 (65 births)
- Births halved by 2018, 16 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 26,495 boys born in 2008 were named Cavan (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 51,760 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,772 in 2002, was only 1 in 29,869 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 34.1% of all boys named Cavan (585) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1960s | 8 | #3,314 (1969) | #3,314 |
| 1970s | 77 | #3,070 (1978) | #3,532 |
| 1980s | 155 | #2,204 (1981) | #3,152 |
| 1990s | 240 | #2,462 (1999) | #3,152 |
| 2000s | 585 | #1,772 (2002) | #2,121 |
| 2010s | 472 | #1,989 (2013) | #2,680 |
| 2020s | 177 | #3,427 (2021) | #3,734 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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