Kavan
- #9,714 for boys in 2025, 7 births
- Peak · boys
- 1995 · 28 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 885since 1968
Kavan over time
boys
Rank among boys' names. Kavan has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
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| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #9,714 | 7 |
| 2024 | #5,904 | 15 |
| 2023 | #8,921 | 8 |
| 2022 | #8,300 | 9 |
| 2021 | #6,032 | 14 |
| 2020 | #5,451 | 16 |
| 2019 | #6,104 | 14 |
| 2018 | #6,345 | 13 |
| 2017 | #4,331 | 23 |
| 2016 | #6,349 | 13 |
| 2015 | #4,711 | 20 |
| 2014 | #7,048 | 11 |
| 2013 | #4,180 | 23 |
| 2012 | #3,115 | 36 |
| 2011 | #3,306 | 33 |
| 2010 | #3,239 | 34 |
| 2009 | #3,045 | 38 |
| 2008 | #4,145 | 24 |
| 2007 | #3,511 | 30 |
| 2006 | #3,227 | 33 |
| 2005 | #2,653 | 41 |
| 2004 | #2,788 | 37 |
| 2003 | #3,280 | 28 |
| 2002 | #2,943 | 31 |
| 2001 | #2,864 | 32 |
| 2000 | #2,993 | 29 |
| 1999 | #2,795 | 30 |
| 1998 | #2,782 | 29 |
| 1997 | #2,903 | 26 |
| 1996 | #3,406 | 20 |
| 1995 | #2,626 | 28 |
| 1994 | #3,469 | 19 |
| 1993 | #3,368 | 19 |
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| 1991 | #6,519 | 7 |
| 1990 | #4,673 | 11 |
| 1989 | #6,229 | 7 |
| 1988 | #5,200 | 8 |
| 1987 | #3,731 | 12 |
| 1986 | #6,721 | 5 |
| 1985 | #6,523 | 5 |
| 1984 | #4,973 | 7 |
| 1983 | #4,499 | 8 |
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| 1980 | #6,250 | 5 |
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| 1977 | #5,845 | 5 |
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| 1975 | #5,464 | 5 |
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| 1972 | #4,986 | 5 |
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| 1969 | #3,595 | 7 |
| 1968 | #4,136 | 5 |
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First appearance
1968
The first year at least five boys were named Kavan! It came in at #4,136, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1970–1982, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Kavan is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Kavan in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Kavan
Momentum · boys
Falling
- 3,810 spots since 2024 (#5,904 → #9,714)
- 4,263 spots since 2020 (#5,451 → #9,714)
- 5,003 spots since 2015 (#4,711 → #9,714)
Rise & fade · boys
27 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1968
- Peaked 1995 at #2,626 (28 births)
- Births halved by 2014, 19 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 48,715
- Highest: 1 in 48,715 boys born in 2005 were named Kavan (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 244,011 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,626 in 1995, was only 1 in 67,989 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2000s
- 36.5% of all boys named Kavan (323) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 12 | #3,595 (1969) | #3,866 |
| 1970s | 15 | #4,986 (1972) | #5,432 |
| 1980s | 57 | #3,731 (1987) | #5,516 |
| 1990s | 189 | #2,626 (1995) | #3,616 |
| 2000s | 323 | #2,653 (2005) | #3,145 |
| 2010s | 220 | #3,115 (2012) | #4,873 |
| 2020s | 69 | #5,451 (2020) | #7,387 |
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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