Traven
- #10,695 for boys in 2025, 6 births
- Peak · boys
- 1995 · 36 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 813since 1974
Traven over time
boys
Rank among boys' names. Traven 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.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,695 | 6 |
| 2024 | #12,349 | 5 |
| 2023 | #9,763 | 7 |
| 2022 | — | |
| 2021 | — | |
| 2020 | — | |
| 2019 | #9,756 | 7 |
| 2018 | #12,156 | 5 |
| 2017 | #7,546 | 10 |
| 2016 | #10,744 | 6 |
| 2015 | #7,491 | 10 |
| 2014 | #5,733 | 15 |
| 2013 | #5,171 | 17 |
| 2012 | #3,625 | 29 |
| 2011 | #3,364 | 32 |
| 2010 | #3,377 | 32 |
| 2009 | #3,223 | 35 |
| 2008 | #3,221 | 35 |
| 2007 | #2,765 | 43 |
| 2006 | #3,306 | 32 |
| 2005 | #3,022 | 34 |
| 2004 | #3,074 | 32 |
| 2003 | #3,186 | 29 |
| 2002 | #3,022 | 30 |
| 2001 | #2,797 | 33 |
| 2000 | #2,864 | 31 |
| 1999 | #3,279 | 24 |
| 1998 | #3,296 | 23 |
| 1997 | #2,981 | 25 |
| 1996 | #2,679 | 28 |
| 1995 | #2,210 | 36 |
| 1994 | #2,307 | 34 |
| 1993 | #2,641 | 27 |
| 1992 | #2,747 | 25 |
| 1991 | #3,105 | 20 |
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| 1988 | #4,450 | 10 |
| 1987 | #6,089 | 6 |
| 1986 | #5,332 | 7 |
| 1985 | #5,147 | 7 |
| 1984 | #6,315 | 5 |
| 1983 | #5,484 | 6 |
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| 1980 | #6,250 | 5 |
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| 1977 | #5,845 | 5 |
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| 1974 | #5,227 | 5 |
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First appearance
1974
The first year at least five boys were named Traven! It came in at #5,227, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1974–1982, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Traven is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Traven in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Traven
Momentum · boys
Brand new
- 1,654 spots since 2024 (#12,349 → #10,695)
- 3,204 spots since 2015 (#7,491 → #10,695)
Rise & fade · boys
21 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1974
- Peaked 1995 at #2,210 (36 births)
- Births halved by 2013, 18 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 48,265
- Highest: 1 in 48,265 boys born in 2007 were named Traven (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 284,679 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,210 in 1995, was only 1 in 52,881 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2000s
- 41.1% of all boys named Traven (334) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 10 | #5,227 (1974) | #5,536 |
| 1980s | 46 | #4,450 (1988) | #5,581 |
| 1990s | 242 | #2,210 (1995) | #2,805 |
| 2000s | 334 | #2,765 (2007) | #3,048 |
| 2010s | 163 | #3,364 (2011) | #6,896 |
| 2020s | 18 | #9,763 (2023) | #10,936 |
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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