Donivan

Peak · boys
2001 · 45 births
Debut · boys
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
1,181
since 1913

Donivan over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Donivan has never cracked the top 2,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank18801900192019401960198020002020peak #2,249, 2001boys
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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#12,0085
2024#10,9386
2023—
2022#9,8237
2021#6,33513
2020#8,0679
2019#6,77712
2018#5,54016
2017#12,2465
2016#6,34913
2015#5,99914
2014#5,06618
2013#4,62120
2012#4,13124
2011#3,36432
2010#3,30833
2009#2,94640
2008#2,63247
2007#2,30456
2006#2,88139
2005#2,61442
2004#2,84336
2003#2,54540
2002#2,63236
2001#2,24945
2000#2,47638
1999#2,39837
1998#2,59932
1997#2,90326
1996#2,91125
1995#3,69317
1994#2,76626
1993#2,69726
1992#3,33819
1991#3,46217
1990#5,3829
1989#3,80914
1988#5,7517
1987#4,23910
1986#3,26814
1985#3,59912
1984#3,45912
1983#4,1419
1982#3,96610
1981#6,2625
1980#4,4958
1979#5,3556
1978#3,21512
1977#3,60610
1976#4,4187
1975#4,3097
1974#4,6346
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1972#3,6228
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1970#3,8367
1969#2,86110
1968#4,1365
1967#2,9858
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1961#2,53811
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1959#3,6196
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1957#3,9935
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1954#3,4526
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1951#3,7145
1950#2,7708
1949#3,2986
1948#3,6685
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1946#3,1736
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1938#3,5345
1937#3,5185
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1930#3,0228
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1926#4,2015
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1923#4,2395
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1920#4,2865
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1917#3,5456
1916#3,8975
1915#3,3926
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1913#2,4966
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First appearance
1913

The first year at least five boys were named Donivan! It came in at #2,496, and was given to 6 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1914, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

Where Donivan is popular in 2025

No state had 5 or more boys named Donivan in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

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Momentum · boys
Falling
  • 1,070 spots since 2024 (#10,938 → #12,008)
  • 3,941 spots since 2020 (#8,067 → #12,008)
  • 6,009 spots since 2015 (#5,999 → #12,008)
Rise & fade · boys
88 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1913
  • Peaked 2001 at #2,249 (45 births)
  • Births halved by 2013, 12 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 37,061
  • Highest: 1 in 37,061 boys born in 2007 were named Donivan (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 341,615 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #2,249 in 2001, was only 1 in 43,175 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2000s
  • 35.5% of all boys named Donivan (419) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s23#2,496 (1913)#3,333
1920s15#4,201 (1926)#4,242
1930s18#3,022 (1930)#3,358
1940s17#3,173 (1946)#3,380
1950s30#2,770 (1950)#3,510
1960s34#2,538 (1961)#3,130
1970s63#3,215 (1978)#4,124
1980s101#3,268 (1986)#4,299
1990s234#2,398 (1999)#3,215
2000s419#2,249 (2001)#2,612
2010s187#3,308 (2010)#5,740
2020s40#6,335 (2021)#9,434

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.

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