Donavon
#5,608 for boys in 2025, 16 births
- Peak · boys
- 1988 · 109 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 5,349since 1915
Donavon over time
Rank among boys' names. Donavon has never cracked the top 900 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,608 | 16 |
| 2024 | #7,765 | 10 |
| 2023 | #3,802 | 29 |
| 2022 | #5,215 | 18 |
| 2021 | #4,936 | 19 |
| 2020 | #5,451 | 16 |
| 2019 | #4,003 | 26 |
| 2018 | #3,607 | 30 |
| 2017 | #4,331 | 23 |
| 2016 | #3,230 | 35 |
| 2015 | #3,149 | 36 |
| 2014 | #2,622 | 46 |
| 2013 | #2,562 | 47 |
| 2012 | #2,678 | 45 |
| 2011 | #2,232 | 58 |
| 2010 | #1,940 | 72 |
| 2009 | #1,698 | 92 |
| 2008 | #1,543 | 104 |
| 2007 | #1,380 | 119 |
| 2006 | #1,374 | 117 |
| 2005 | #1,266 | 123 |
| 2004 | #1,251 | 120 |
| 2003 | #1,076 | 144 |
| 2002 | #1,026 | 149 |
| 2001 | #1,014 | 147 |
| 2000 | #967 | 156 |
| 1999 | #978 | 146 |
| 1998 | #1,050 | 128 |
| 1997 | #981 | 132 |
| 1996 | #1,030 | 119 |
| 1995 | #1,107 | 105 |
| 1994 | #1,041 | 114 |
| 1993 | #965 | 124 |
| 1992 | #997 | 118 |
| 1991 | #1,038 | 108 |
| 1990 | #1,102 | 94 |
| 1989 | #1,150 | 85 |
| 1988 | #914 | 109 |
| 1987 | #1,175 | 67 |
| 1986 | #1,299 | 56 |
| 1985 | #1,304 | 54 |
| 1984 | #1,630 | 36 |
| 1983 | #1,687 | 34 |
| 1982 | #1,774 | 32 |
| 1981 | #1,500 | 41 |
| 1980 | #1,227 | 56 |
| 1979 | #1,435 | 42 |
| 1978 | #1,393 | 44 |
| 1977 | #1,158 | 57 |
| 1976 | #1,346 | 43 |
| 1975 | #1,455 | 37 |
| 1974 | #1,182 | 49 |
| 1973 | #1,068 | 58 |
| 1972 | #976 | 69 |
| 1971 | #914 | 79 |
| 1970 | #1,178 | 49 |
| 1969 | #1,017 | 57 |
| 1968 | #1,233 | 38 |
| 1967 | #1,287 | 34 |
| 1966 | #1,194 | 39 |
| 1965 | #1,669 | 22 |
| 1964 | #1,900 | 18 |
| 1963 | #1,659 | 23 |
| 1962 | #1,669 | 23 |
| 1961 | #1,496 | 29 |
| 1960 | #1,658 | 24 |
| 1959 | #1,467 | 29 |
| 1958 | #1,896 | 18 |
| 1957 | #2,019 | 16 |
| 1956 | #1,443 | 29 |
| 1955 | #1,725 | 20 |
| 1954 | #1,887 | 17 |
| 1953 | #1,958 | 16 |
| 1952 | #2,251 | 12 |
| 1951 | #1,904 | 16 |
| 1950 | #1,464 | 25 |
| 1949 | #1,380 | 28 |
| 1948 | #1,217 | 35 |
| 1947 | #1,336 | 30 |
| 1946 | #2,030 | 13 |
| 1945 | #1,852 | 14 |
| 1944 | #1,152 | 33 |
| 1943 | #2,182 | 12 |
| 1942 | #1,585 | 20 |
| 1941 | #1,446 | 22 |
| 1940 | #1,090 | 36 |
| 1939 | #1,532 | 19 |
| 1938 | #1,076 | 36 |
| 1937 | #1,233 | 29 |
| 1936 | #1,051 | 37 |
| 1935 | #1,148 | 33 |
| 1934 | #1,266 | 28 |
| 1933 | #1,281 | 27 |
| 1932 | #1,465 | 23 |
| 1931 | #1,194 | 33 |
| 1930 | #1,190 | 35 |
| 1929 | #1,272 | 31 |
| 1928 | #1,707 | 20 |
| 1927 | #1,516 | 25 |
| 1926 | #2,566 | 11 |
| 1925 | #2,313 | 13 |
| 1924 | #1,964 | 17 |
| 1923 | #1,941 | 17 |
| 1922 | #1,952 | 17 |
| 1921 | #1,980 | 17 |
| 1920 | #2,765 | 10 |
| 1919 | #3,391 | 7 |
| 1918 | #2,699 | 10 |
| 1917 | #2,732 | 9 |
| 1916 | #2,926 | 8 |
| 1915 | #3,082 | 7 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Donavon! It came in at #3,082, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1915–1920, when fewer than 11 boys a year got the name.
Where Donavon is popular in 1972
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Louisiana#560 · 1 in 6,247
- California#996 · 1 in 21,448
Best ever in a state: #164 in North Dakota, 1965.
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| Louisiana | #560 | 5 | 1 in 6,247 |
| California | #996 | 7 | 1 in 21,448 |
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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 Donavon
- 2,157 spots since 2024 (#7,765 → #5,608)
- 157 spots since 2020 (#5,451 → #5,608)
- 2,459 spots since 2015 (#3,149 → #5,608)
- Biggest jump: 264 spots in 1971 (#1,178 → #914)
- Biggest drop: 236 spots in 1989 (#914 → #1,150)
- Debuted 1915
- Peaked 1988 at #914 (109 births)
- Births halved by 2012, 24 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 8 yrs · run 1971–1972
- Highest: 1 in 12,590 boys born in 2000 were named Donavon (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 106,755 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #914 in 1988, was only 1 in 17,562 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 23.8% of all boys named Donavon (1,271) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1910s | 41 | #2,699 (1918) | #2,966 |
| 1920s | 178 | #1,272 (1929) | #1,998 |
| 1930s | 300 | #1,051 (1936) | #1,244 |
| 1940s | 243 | #1,090 (1940) | #1,527 |
| 1950s | 198 | #1,443 (1956) | #1,801 |
| 1960s | 307 | #1,017 (1969) | #1,478 |
| 1970s | 527 | #914 (1971) | #1,211 |
| 1980s | 570 | #914 (1988) | #1,366 |
| 1990s | 1,188 | #965 (1993) | #1,029 |
| 2000s | 1,271 | #967 (2000) | #1,260 |
| 2010s | 418 | #1,940 (2010) | #3,035 |
| 2020s | 108 | #3,802 (2023) | #5,463 |
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.
Donavon in 1972
Top boys' names in 1972
More about 1972
boys
1,621,608 boys got a published name in 1972; 1 in 23,502 of them was named Donavon, which outranked 83.0% of the 5,751 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #968Napoleon70
- #968Shea70
- #968Vinson70
- #976Donavon69
- #976Angela69
- #976Brien69
- #976Davin69
- #984Abelardo68
- #984Christophe68
- #984Dedric68
Tied with 7 names at #976; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.