Donavan
Last seen for girls in 1997 at #13,724 · #2,421 for boys in 2025, 56 births
Given to boys 99.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1999 · 262 births
- Debut · boys
- 9 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 8,300since 1919
Donavan over time
Rank among boys' names. Donavan has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #2,421 | 56 | |
| 2024 | — | #3,216 | 37 | |
| 2023 | — | #2,441 | 55 | |
| 2022 | — | #3,151 | 38 | |
| 2021 | — | #2,732 | 46 | |
| 2020 | — | #2,467 | 52 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,851 | 43 | |
| 2018 | — | #1,920 | 77 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,681 | 94 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,921 | 76 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,657 | 95 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,714 | 88 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,510 | 107 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,376 | 122 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,377 | 121 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,108 | 172 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,024 | 190 | |
| 2008 | — | #963 | 208 | |
| 2007 | — | #909 | 218 | |
| 2006 | — | #812 | 251 | |
| 2005 | — | #748 | 269 | |
| 2004 | — | #731 | 258 | |
| 2003 | — | #706 | 266 | |
| 2002 | — | #678 | 270 | |
| 2001 | — | #680 | 267 | |
| 2000 | — | #735 | 233 | |
| 1999 | — | #659 | 262 | |
| 1998 | — | #688 | 244 | |
| 1997 | #13,724 | 5 | #681 | 238 |
| 1996 | — | #763 | 193 | |
| 1995 | — | #816 | 172 | |
| 1994 | — | #734 | 205 | |
| 1993 | — | #730 | 203 | |
| 1992 | — | #703 | 214 | |
| 1991 | — | #676 | 224 | |
| 1990 | — | #802 | 160 | |
| 1989 | — | #758 | 169 | |
| 1988 | — | #862 | 121 | |
| 1987 | — | #846 | 122 | |
| 1986 | — | #872 | 108 | |
| 1985 | — | #917 | 98 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,076 | 69 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,130 | 63 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,362 | 48 | |
| 1981 | — | #1,111 | 67 | |
| 1980 | — | #1,042 | 75 | |
| 1979 | — | #1,137 | 62 | |
| 1978 | — | #977 | 78 | |
| 1977 | — | #928 | 84 | |
| 1976 | — | #1,010 | 67 | |
| 1975 | — | #1,019 | 65 | |
| 1974 | — | #969 | 71 | |
| 1973 | — | #978 | 68 | |
| 1972 | — | #851 | 89 | |
| 1971 | — | #941 | 75 | |
| 1970 | — | #875 | 85 | |
| 1969 | — | #804 | 92 | |
| 1968 | — | #1,314 | 34 | |
| 1967 | — | #1,043 | 49 | |
| 1966 | — | #1,540 | 25 | |
| 1965 | — | #1,513 | 26 | |
| 1964 | — | #1,615 | 24 | |
| 1963 | — | #1,695 | 22 | |
| 1962 | — | #1,757 | 21 | |
| 1961 | — | #1,731 | 22 | |
| 1960 | — | #2,210 | 14 | |
| 1959 | — | #1,467 | 29 | |
| 1958 | — | #2,370 | 12 | |
| 1957 | — | #2,274 | 13 | |
| 1956 | — | #1,642 | 23 | |
| 1955 | — | #1,791 | 19 | |
| 1954 | — | #1,826 | 18 | |
| 1953 | — | #2,099 | 14 | |
| 1952 | — | #2,073 | 14 | |
| 1951 | — | #1,725 | 19 | |
| 1950 | — | #3,681 | 5 | |
| 1949 | — | #2,453 | 10 | |
| 1948 | — | #2,443 | 10 | |
| 1947 | — | #2,251 | 12 | |
| 1946 | — | #2,030 | 13 | |
| 1945 | — | #1,926 | 13 | |
| 1944 | — | #2,309 | 10 | |
| 1943 | — | #3,538 | 5 | |
| 1942 | — | #1,867 | 15 | |
| 1941 | — | #2,656 | 8 | |
| 1940 | — | #2,081 | 12 | |
| 1939 | — | #1,795 | 15 | |
| 1938 | — | #1,976 | 13 | |
| 1937 | — | #2,905 | 7 | |
| 1936 | — | #2,629 | 8 | |
| 1935 | — | #2,396 | 10 | |
| 1934 | — | #2,393 | 10 | |
| 1933 | — | #3,004 | 7 | |
| 1932 | — | #2,638 | 9 | |
| 1931 | — | #1,693 | 18 | |
| 1930 | — | #2,609 | 10 | |
| 1929 | — | #1,848 | 17 | |
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| 1926 | — | #3,708 | 6 | |
| 1925 | — | #2,755 | 10 | |
| 1924 | — | #2,641 | 11 | |
| 1923 | — | #3,467 | 7 | |
| 1922 | — | #3,252 | 8 | |
| 1921 | — | #4,322 | 5 | |
| 1920 | — | #2,967 | 9 | |
| 1919 | — | #2,877 | 9 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Donavan! It came in at #2,877, and was given to 9 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1927–1928, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Donavan is popular in 2009
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Kansas#448 · 1 in 2,392
- Nevada#469 · 1 in 2,871
- Missouri#598 · 1 in 4,183
- Michigan#618 · 1 in 4,487
- Tennessee#631 · 1 in 4,540
Best ever in a state: #242 in West Virginia, 1999.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kansas | #448 | 7 | 1 in 2,392 |
| Nevada | #469 | 5 | 1 in 2,871 |
| Missouri | #598 | 8 | 1 in 4,183 |
| Michigan | #618 | 11 | 1 in 4,487 |
| Tennessee | #631 | 8 | 1 in 4,540 |
| South Carolina | #659 | 5 | 1 in 4,340 |
| Oklahoma | #667 | 5 | 1 in 4,291 |
| Arizona | #708 | 7 | 1 in 5,705 |
| Texas | #903 | 22 | 1 in 8,475 |
| Pennsylvania | #907 | 7 | 1 in 8,875 |
| Georgia | #924 | 8 | 1 in 7,378 |
| Ohio | #1,048 | 6 | 1 in 10,442 |
| North Carolina | #1,115 | 5 | 1 in 10,767 |
| California | #1,183 | 16 | 1 in 15,134 |
| Florida | #1,302 | 7 | 1 in 13,614 |
| New York | #1,312 | 8 | 1 in 13,464 |
| Illinois | #1,382 | 5 | 1 in 14,510 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Donavan
- 795 spots since 2024 (#3,216 → #2,421)
- 46 spots since 2020 (#2,467 → #2,421)
- 764 spots since 2015 (#1,657 → #2,421)
- Biggest jump: 510 spots in 1969 (#1,314 → #804)
- Biggest drop: 160 spots in 1979 (#977 → #1,137)
- Debuted 1919
- Peaked 1999 at #659 (262 births)
- Births halved by 2011, 12 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 32 yrs · run 1985–2008
- Highest: 1 in 7,191 boys born in 2002 were named Donavan (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 30,501 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #659 in 1999, was only 1 in 7,329 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 29.3% of all boys named Donavan (2,430) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 9 | #2,877 (1919) | #2,877 |
| 1920s | 73 | #1,848 (1929) | #3,120 |
| 1930s | 107 | #1,693 (1931) | #2,404 |
| 1940s | 108 | #1,867 (1942) | #2,355 |
| 1950s | 166 | #1,467 (1959) | #2,095 |
| 1960s | 329 | #804 (1969) | #1,522 |
| 1970s | 744 | #851 (1972) | #969 |
| 1980s | 940 | #758 (1989) | #998 |
| 1990s | 2,115 | #659 (1999) | #725 |
| 2000s | 2,430 | #678 (2002) | #799 |
| 2010s | 995 | #1,108 (2010) | #1,712 |
| 2020s | 284 | #2,421 (2025) | #2,738 |
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.
Donavan in 2009
Top boys' names in 2009
More about 2009
boys
1,983,573 boys got a published name in 2009; 1 in 10,440 of them was named Donavan, which outranked 93.0% of the 14,540 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).