Cavin
Cavin was given to 8 boys in 2025, #9,057 among boys’ names; 1,371 Americans have been recorded with it since 1954 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,290 Americans named Cavin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 17 and 45.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cavin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Cavin?
#9,057 among boys’ names, 2025
Cavin fell from #4,313 in 2015 to #9,057 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 12.0 to 4.7 per million.
56 babies in 1981, the peak
Cavin peaked in 1981, when 56 boys were given it, #1,226 among boys’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 14% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #9,057 | 4.7 |
| 2024 | 6 | #11,177 | 3.5 |
| 2023 | 9 | #8,368 | 5.3 |
| 2022 | 10 | #7,852 | 5.7 |
| 2021 | 10 | #7,702 | 5.7 |
| 2020 | 14 | #6,025 | 8.1 |
| 2019 | 17 | #5,383 | 9.5 |
| 2018 | 13 | #6,404 | 7.2 |
| 2017 | 17 | #5,326 | 9.2 |
| 2016 | 23 | #4,349 | 12.1 |
Every recorded year (72)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 23 | #4,313 | 12.0 |
| 2014 | 28 | #3,704 | 14.6 |
| 2013 | 26 | #3,879 | 13.7 |
| 2012 | 32 | #3,380 | 16.9 |
| 2011 | 31 | #3,445 | 16.3 |
| 2010 | 46 | #2,641 | 24.0 |
| 2009 | 51 | #2,488 | 25.7 |
| 2008 | 31 | #3,497 | 15.2 |
| 2007 | 39 | #2,979 | 18.8 |
| 2006 | 35 | #3,098 | 17.0 |
| 2005 | 34 | #3,022 | 17.0 |
| 2004 | 33 | #3,027 | 16.6 |
| 2003 | 41 | #2,510 | 20.8 |
| 2002 | 26 | #3,361 | 13.4 |
| 2001 | 27 | #3,233 | 13.9 |
| 2000 | 18 | #4,231 | 9.2 |
| 1999 | 22 | #3,492 | 11.5 |
| 1998 | 12 | #5,187 | 6.3 |
| 1997 | 23 | #3,167 | 12.2 |
| 1996 | 25 | #2,932 | 13.2 |
| 1995 | 21 | #3,201 | 11.0 |
| 1994 | 18 | #3,606 | 9.3 |
| 1993 | 12 | #4,740 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 18 | #3,469 | 9.0 |
| 1991 | 23 | #2,835 | 11.4 |
| 1990 | 11 | #4,703 | 5.4 |
| 1989 | 28 | #2,360 | 14.0 |
| 1988 | 16 | #3,224 | 8.4 |
| 1987 | 18 | #2,849 | 9.6 |
| 1986 | 24 | #2,299 | 13.0 |
| 1985 | 20 | #2,512 | 10.8 |
| 1984 | 16 | #2,841 | 8.9 |
| 1983 | 15 | #2,937 | 8.4 |
| 1982 | 17 | #2,721 | 9.4 |
| 1981 | 56 | #1,226 | 31.3 |
| 1980 | 6 | #5,622 | 3.4 |
| 1979 | 12 | #3,387 | 7.0 |
| 1978 | 16 | #2,685 | 9.7 |
| 1977 | 11 | #3,415 | 6.7 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,012 | 3.8 |
| 1975 | 9 | #3,692 | 5.8 |
| 1974 | 7 | #4,242 | 4.5 |
| 1973 | 12 | #2,873 | 7.7 |
| 1972 | 13 | #2,675 | 8.0 |
| 1971 | 11 | #2,998 | 6.2 |
| 1970 | 16 | #2,311 | 8.6 |
| 1969 | 11 | #2,708 | 6.2 |
| 1968 | 15 | #2,118 | 8.6 |
| 1967 | 22 | #1,662 | 12.6 |
| 1966 | 14 | #2,143 | 7.8 |
| 1965 | 18 | #1,864 | 9.7 |
| 1964 | 17 | #1,979 | 8.5 |
| 1963 | 20 | #1,798 | 9.8 |
| 1962 | 13 | #2,291 | 6.3 |
| 1961 | 19 | #1,888 | 8.9 |
| 1960 | 6 | #3,717 | 2.8 |
| 1959 | 13 | #2,315 | 6.1 |
| 1958 | 12 | #2,384 | 5.7 |
| 1957 | 7 | #3,286 | 3.2 |
| 1956 | 9 | #2,823 | 4.3 |
| 1955 | 5 | #3,958 | 2.4 |
| 1954 | 8 | #2,988 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Cavin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cavin has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 72 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Cavin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cavin, and how old are they?
1,290 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 1,371 Americans ever recorded as Cavin. The median Cavin alive today is 27 years old; half are between 17 and 45.
The 2020 Census counted 1,236 people named Cavin (14 women and girls, 1,222 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,257 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 96 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 174 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 320 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 493 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 202 |
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 12,371 babies since 1880, Cavin is the fifth most given (11% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 180 babies (4.4%), the sixth 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 Cavin
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 Cavin and names like it
- Compare Cavin and KavinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sCavin peaked in 1981.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cavin since 1910.
- The top names of 1981The year the most babies were named Cavin.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Cavin alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.