Donavan

Where Donavan comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Donavan.

Donavan through the years
  1. 1919
    First appearance
    #2,877 among boys with 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, its best rank.
  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

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

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.