Daven
Daven was given to 28 boys in 2025, #3,864 among boys’ names; 2,635 Americans have been recorded with it since 1955 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,550 Americans named Daven and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 16 and 33.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Daven by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Daven?
#3,864 among boys’ names, 2025
Daven fell from #2,929 in 2015 to #3,864 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 20.9 to 16.4 per million.
109 babies in 2007, the peak
Daven peaked in 2007, when 109 babies were given it (104 boys, #1,517 among boys’ names). The 28 births of 2025 are 26% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 28 | #3,864 | 16.4 |
| 2024 | 22 | #4,587 | 12.8 |
| 2023 | 30 | #3,729 | 17.5 |
| 2022 | 34 | #3,423 | 19.5 |
| 2021 | 26 | #4,032 | 14.9 |
| 2020 | 38 | #3,031 | 22.0 |
| 2019 | 29 | #3,735 | 16.2 |
| 2018 | 38 | #3,061 | 20.9 |
| 2017 | 42 | #2,849 | 22.7 |
| 2016 | 40 | #2,943 | 21.1 |
Every recorded year (66)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 40 | #2,929 | 20.9 |
| 2014 | 60 | #2,236 | 31.2 |
| 2013 | 55 | #2,308 | 29.1 |
| 2012 | 65 | #2,093 | 34.3 |
| 2011 | 73 | #1,907 | 38.4 |
| 2010 | 79 | #1,837 | 41.2 |
| 2009 | 83 | #1,799 | 41.8 |
| 2008 | 85 | #1,763 | 41.7 |
| 2007 | 104 | #1,517 | 50.1 |
| 2006 | 96 | #1,544 | 46.7 |
| 2005 | 93 | #1,525 | 46.6 |
| 2004 | 86 | #1,539 | 43.3 |
| 2003 | 78 | #1,613 | 39.5 |
| 2002 | 87 | #1,459 | 44.8 |
| 2001 | 69 | #1,676 | 35.5 |
| 2000 | 68 | #1,680 | 34.6 |
| 1999 | 67 | #1,606 | 34.9 |
| 1998 | 47 | #2,015 | 24.6 |
| 1997 | 55 | #1,756 | 29.2 |
| 1996 | 59 | #1,639 | 31.1 |
| 1995 | 55 | #1,647 | 28.9 |
| 1994 | 57 | #1,607 | 29.5 |
| 1993 | 50 | #1,719 | 25.5 |
| 1992 | 48 | #1,745 | 24.0 |
| 1991 | 48 | #1,698 | 23.8 |
| 1990 | 30 | #2,320 | 14.6 |
| 1989 | 39 | #1,895 | 19.5 |
| 1988 | 28 | #2,203 | 14.6 |
| 1987 | 26 | #2,223 | 13.9 |
| 1986 | 25 | #2,237 | 13.6 |
| 1985 | 30 | #1,924 | 16.2 |
| 1984 | 20 | #2,452 | 11.1 |
| 1983 | 27 | #1,968 | 15.1 |
| 1982 | 25 | #2,127 | 13.8 |
| 1981 | 14 | #3,071 | 7.8 |
| 1980 | 21 | #2,382 | 11.8 |
| 1979 | 19 | #2,485 | 11.0 |
| 1978 | 18 | #2,499 | 11.0 |
| 1977 | 21 | #2,220 | 12.8 |
| 1976 | 9 | #3,779 | 5.7 |
| 1975 | 14 | #2,783 | 9.0 |
| 1974 | 16 | #2,487 | 10.2 |
| 1973 | 16 | #2,422 | 10.3 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,067 | 4.3 |
| 1971 | 10 | #3,189 | 5.7 |
| 1970 | 10 | #3,114 | 5.4 |
| 1969 | 10 | #2,905 | 5.6 |
| 1968 | 15 | #2,129 | 8.6 |
| 1967 | 9 | #2,814 | 5.2 |
| 1966 | 8 | #3,038 | 4.5 |
| 1965 | 7 | #3,308 | 3.8 |
| 1964 | 10 | #2,703 | 5.0 |
| 1962 | 6 | #3,724 | 2.9 |
| 1961 | 7 | #3,426 | 3.3 |
| 1958 | 7 | #3,342 | 3.3 |
| 1955 | 5 | #3,990 | 2.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Daven a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,635 Americans recorded as Daven, 3% are girls and 97% boys. In 2025 it went to 28 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Daven: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Daven, and how old are they?
2,550 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 2,635 Americans ever recorded as Daven. The median Daven alive today is 23 years old; half are between 16 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 2,265 people named Daven (148 women and girls, 2,117 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,407 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 26 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 212 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 588 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,250 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 478 |
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).
Where are babies named Daven born?
The states with the most babies named Daven are California, Texas and Florida, with 75% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 205 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Texas | 176 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 52 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| New York | 32 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Louisiana | 17 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Alabama | 11 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| North Carolina | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Tennessee | 11 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Georgia | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Ohio | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Daven with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 53,284 babies since 1880, Daven is the sixth most given (4.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 28 of their 515 babies (5.4%), again the sixth most given.
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 Daven
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1950-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Iain | 2,911 | |
| Juancarlos | 4,056 | |
| Gianfranco | 1,057 | |
| Isacc | 1,962 | |
| Devlin | 3,442 | |
| Keyon | 6,020 |
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 Daven and names like it
- Compare Daven and DavonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDaven peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Daven since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Daven.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Daven alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.