Cavan
Cavan was given to 33 boys in 2025, #3,455 among boys’ names; 1,714 Americans have been recorded with it since 1969 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,670 Americans named Cavan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 12 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cavan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Cavan?
#3,455 among boys’ names, 2025
Cavan fell from #2,773 in 2015 to #3,455 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 22.4 to 19.3 per million.
77 babies in 2008, the peak
Cavan peaked in 2008, when 77 boys were given it, #1,877 among boys’ names. The 33 births of 2025 are 43% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 33 | #3,455 | 19.3 |
| 2024 | 25 | #4,216 | 14.5 |
| 2023 | 30 | #3,723 | 17.5 |
| 2022 | 28 | #3,898 | 16.0 |
| 2021 | 33 | #3,431 | 18.9 |
| 2020 | 28 | #3,738 | 16.2 |
| 2019 | 41 | #2,949 | 22.9 |
| 2018 | 31 | #3,543 | 17.1 |
| 2017 | 36 | #3,199 | 19.4 |
| 2016 | 44 | #2,731 | 23.2 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 43 | #2,773 | 22.4 |
| 2014 | 52 | #2,432 | 27.1 |
| 2013 | 69 | #1,992 | 36.5 |
| 2012 | 51 | #2,456 | 26.9 |
| 2011 | 52 | #2,408 | 27.4 |
| 2010 | 53 | #2,378 | 27.6 |
| 2009 | 69 | #2,012 | 34.8 |
| 2008 | 77 | #1,877 | 37.7 |
| 2007 | 64 | #2,121 | 30.8 |
| 2006 | 59 | #2,184 | 28.7 |
| 2005 | 71 | #1,813 | 35.5 |
| 2004 | 45 | #2,455 | 22.7 |
| 2003 | 60 | #1,936 | 30.4 |
| 2002 | 65 | #1,770 | 33.5 |
| 2001 | 41 | #2,386 | 21.1 |
| 2000 | 34 | #2,677 | 17.3 |
| 1999 | 36 | #2,465 | 18.7 |
| 1998 | 33 | #2,559 | 17.3 |
| 1997 | 32 | #2,500 | 17.0 |
| 1996 | 17 | #3,841 | 9.0 |
| 1995 | 14 | #4,305 | 7.4 |
| 1994 | 27 | #2,692 | 14.0 |
| 1993 | 20 | #3,251 | 10.2 |
| 1992 | 28 | #2,537 | 14.0 |
| 1991 | 12 | #4,517 | 5.9 |
| 1990 | 21 | #2,965 | 10.2 |
| 1989 | 18 | #3,218 | 9.0 |
| 1988 | 13 | #3,731 | 6.8 |
| 1987 | 14 | #3,359 | 7.5 |
| 1986 | 21 | #2,521 | 11.4 |
| 1985 | 13 | #3,435 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 16 | #2,840 | 8.9 |
| 1983 | 15 | #2,936 | 8.4 |
| 1982 | 13 | #3,312 | 7.2 |
| 1981 | 23 | #2,209 | 12.8 |
| 1980 | 9 | #4,186 | 5.0 |
| 1979 | 11 | #3,597 | 6.4 |
| 1978 | 13 | #3,087 | 7.9 |
| 1977 | 11 | #3,414 | 6.7 |
| 1975 | 8 | #3,999 | 5.1 |
| 1974 | 11 | #3,161 | 7.0 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,029 | 4.3 |
| 1971 | 9 | #3,401 | 5.1 |
| 1970 | 7 | #3,899 | 3.8 |
| 1969 | 8 | #3,349 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Cavan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cavan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 55 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Cavan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cavan, and how old are they?
1,670 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,714 Americans ever recorded as Cavan. The median Cavan alive today is 19 years old; half are between 12 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 1,464 people named Cavan (42 women and girls, 1,422 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,516 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 85 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 271 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 829 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 489 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 11,164 babies since 1880, Cavan is the third most given (15% of them). In 2025 it was given to 33 of their 140 babies (24%), the second most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Cavan
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Cavan and names like it
- Compare Cavan and KavinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sCavan peaked in 2008.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cavan since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Cavan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Cavan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.