Gaven
#10,695 for boys in 2025, 6 births
- Peak · boys
- 2003 · 282 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,839since 1972
Gaven over time
Rank among boys' names. Gaven 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 | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,695 | 6 |
| 2024 | #8,312 | 9 |
| 2023 | #6,517 | 13 |
| 2022 | #7,262 | 11 |
| 2021 | #6,335 | 13 |
| 2020 | #4,141 | 24 |
| 2019 | #3,899 | 27 |
| 2018 | #3,171 | 36 |
| 2017 | #3,678 | 29 |
| 2016 | #2,885 | 41 |
| 2015 | #2,355 | 55 |
| 2014 | #2,230 | 60 |
| 2013 | #1,782 | 81 |
| 2012 | #1,383 | 121 |
| 2011 | #1,229 | 142 |
| 2010 | #1,143 | 162 |
| 2009 | #1,055 | 179 |
| 2008 | #922 | 221 |
| 2007 | #898 | 223 |
| 2006 | #948 | 196 |
| 2005 | #769 | 258 |
| 2004 | #720 | 265 |
| 2003 | #686 | 282 |
| 2002 | #728 | 243 |
| 2001 | #833 | 195 |
| 2000 | #845 | 189 |
| 1999 | #951 | 152 |
| 1998 | #1,172 | 106 |
| 1997 | #1,242 | 93 |
| 1996 | #1,480 | 68 |
| 1995 | #1,648 | 55 |
| 1994 | #1,894 | 44 |
| 1993 | #2,123 | 37 |
| 1992 | #2,214 | 34 |
| 1991 | #2,606 | 26 |
| 1990 | #2,255 | 31 |
| 1989 | #4,017 | 13 |
| 1988 | #5,200 | 8 |
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| 1986 | #4,457 | 9 |
| 1985 | #4,052 | 10 |
| 1984 | #3,701 | 11 |
| 1983 | #3,071 | 14 |
| 1982 | #5,619 | 6 |
| 1981 | #4,153 | 9 |
| 1980 | #4,495 | 8 |
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| 1977 | #5,123 | 6 |
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| 1975 | #3,941 | 8 |
| 1974 | #5,227 | 5 |
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| 1972 | #4,986 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Gaven! It came in at #4,986, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1972–1974, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Gaven is popular in 2012
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Arkansas#512 · 1 in 2,855
- Kentucky#526 · 1 in 3,697
- Tennessee#700 · 1 in 5,113
- Michigan#771 · 1 in 5,955
- Ohio#805 · 1 in 6,640
Best ever in a state: #244 in Iowa, 2002.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Arkansas | #512 | 5 | 1 in 2,855 |
| Kentucky | #526 | 6 | 1 in 3,697 |
| Tennessee | #700 | 7 | 1 in 5,113 |
| Michigan | #771 | 8 | 1 in 5,955 |
| Ohio | #805 | 9 | 1 in 6,640 |
| Washington | #813 | 6 | 1 in 5,987 |
| Georgia | #1,207 | 5 | 1 in 10,802 |
| Florida | #1,292 | 7 | 1 in 13,137 |
| New York | #1,452 | 7 | 1 in 14,900 |
| Texas | #1,562 | 9 | 1 in 19,738 |
| California | #1,714 | 9 | 1 in 25,610 |
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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 Gaven
- 2,383 spots since 2024 (#8,312 → #10,695)
- 6,554 spots since 2020 (#4,141 → #10,695)
- 8,340 spots since 2015 (#2,355 → #10,695)
- Biggest jump: 221 spots in 1999 (#1,172 → #951)
- Biggest drop: 179 spots in 2006 (#769 → #948)
- Debuted 1972
- Peaked 2003 at #686 (282 births)
- Births halved by 2012, 9 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 10 yrs · run 1999–2008
- Highest: 1 in 7,005 boys born in 2003 were named Gaven (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 284,679 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 58.6% of all boys named Gaven (2,251) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 24 | #3,941 (1975) | #4,819 |
| 1980s | 88 | #3,071 (1983) | #4,307 |
| 1990s | 646 | #951 (1999) | #1,759 |
| 2000s | 2,251 | #686 (2003) | #840 |
| 2010s | 754 | #1,143 (2010) | #2,376 |
| 2020s | 76 | #4,141 (2020) | #7,210 |
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.
Gaven in 2012
Top boys' names in 2012
More about 2012
boys
1,896,946 boys got a published name in 2012; 1 in 15,677 of them was named Gaven, which outranked 90.3% of the 14,250 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,376Jariel122
- #1,376Kallen122
- #1,376Tyshawn122
- #1,383Gaven121
- #1,383Atlas121
- #1,383Bailey121
- #1,383Finnley121
- #1,391Brandt120
- #1,391Demari120
- #1,391Geoffrey120
Tied with 7 names at #1,383; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.