Donavan

Where Donavan comes from

Donavan hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1919
    First appearance
    #2,877 among boys, 9 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1997
    Donavan Brazier born
    American athletics competitor
  3. 1999
    Peak, #659
    262 babies named Donavan — more than any year before or since.
  4. 2000
    Donavan Grondin born
    French cyclist
  5. 2011
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,377.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Donavan Brazier · American athletics competitor, born 1997
  • Donavan Grondin · French cyclist, born 2000
  • Donavan Freberg · American actor and photographer, born 1971
  • Donavan McKinney · American politician from Michigan, born 1992
  • Donavan Tate · American baseball player, born 1990

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.