Gaven

Where Gaven comes from

Gaven 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. 1914
    Gaven Donne born
    New Zealand judge
  2. 1958
    Gaven Martin born
    New Zealand mathematician
  3. 1972
    First appearance
    #4,986 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  4. 2003
    Peak, #686
    282 babies named Gaven — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2012
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,383.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Gaven Donne · New Zealand judge, 1914–2010
  • Gaven Martin · New Zealand mathematician, born 1958

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.