Cavan

#3,450 for boys in 2025, 33 births

Peak · boys
2002 · 65 births
Debut · boys
8 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
1,714
since 1969

Cavan over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Cavan has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201997peak #1,772, 2002boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yearboys
rankbirths
2025#3,45033
2024#4,20025
2023#3,71230
2022#3,87928
2021#3,42733
2020#3,73428
2019#2,94341
2018#3,52431
2017#3,19336
2016#2,72644
2015#2,76643
2014#2,42952
2013#1,98969
2012#2,44851
2011#2,40352
2010#2,37553
2009#2,01069
2008#1,87477
2007#2,11764
2006#2,17659
2005#1,81371
2004#2,45245
2003#1,93660
2002#1,77265
2001#2,38641
2000#2,67434
1999#2,46236
1998#2,55233
1997#2,50232
1996#3,83017
1995#4,28014
1994#2,68527
1993#3,24620
1992#2,53228
1991#4,47612
1990#2,95221
1989#3,20518
1988#3,70513
1987#3,33914
1986#2,51021
1985#3,40113
1984#2,82416
1983#2,91215
1982#3,28213
1981#2,20423
1980#4,1349
1979#3,56911
1978#3,07013
1977#3,38611
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1975#3,9418
1974#3,12011
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1972#3,9637
1971#3,3709
1970#3,8367
1969#3,3148
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First appearance
1969

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 1997

No state had 5 or more boys named Cavan in 1997, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Cavan
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 750 spots since 2024 (#4,200 → #3,450)
  • 284 spots since 2020 (#3,734 → #3,450)
  • 684 spots since 2015 (#2,766 → #3,450)
Rise & fade · boys
33 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1969
  • Peaked 2002 at #1,772 (65 births)
  • Births halved by 2018, 16 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 26,495
  • 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
Era · boys
The 2000s
  • 34.1% of all boys named Cavan (585) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1960s8#3,314 (1969)#3,314
1970s77#3,070 (1978)#3,532
1980s155#2,204 (1981)#3,152
1990s240#2,462 (1999)#3,152
2000s585#1,772 (2002)#2,121
2010s472#1,989 (2013)#2,680
2020s177#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.

Cavan in 1997

boys
#2,502
32 births · 1 in 58,911 boys

Top boys' names in 1997

  1. #1Michael37,562
  2. #2Jacob34,163
  3. #3Matthew31,517
  4. #4Christopher29,108
  5. #5Joshua28,289
  6. #6Nicholas27,258
  7. #7Andrew25,208
  8. #8Brandon25,197
  9. #9Austin25,118
  10. #10Tyler24,879
  11. #2,502Cavan32
More about 1997

boys

1,885,140 boys got a published name in 1997; 1 in 58,911 of them was named Cavan, which outranked 76.9% of the 10,814 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Cavan
  1. #2,449Toney33
  2. #2,449Torrence33
  3. #2,449Trentin33
  4. #2,502Cavan32
  5. #2,502An32
  6. #2,502Bradey32
  7. #2,502Cian32
  8. #2,546Aamir31
  9. #2,546Abhinav31
  10. #2,546Adin31

Tied with 43 names at #2,502; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1996
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,420Jaret#2,145 → #725
  2. ↑ 712Kobe#1,265 → #553
  3. ↑ 580Ronaldo#1,465 → #885
  4. ↑ 420Jarett#1,334 → #914
  5. ↑ 416Gianni#1,093 → #677
Fallers
  1. ↓ 562Shaquille#662 → #1,224
  2. ↓ 373Dalvin#977 → #1,350
  3. ↓ 355Montel#990 → #1,345
  4. ↓ 328Codie#884 → #1,212
  5. ↓ 328Jair#884 → #1,212

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1997 →