Donavan
Donavan was given to 56 boys in 2025, #2,426 among boys’ names; 8,305 Americans have been recorded with it since 1919 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,700 Americans named Donavan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 20 and 37.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Donavan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Donavan?
#2,426 among boys’ names, 2025
Donavan fell from #1,658 in 2015 to #2,426 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 49.6 to 32.8 per million.
270 babies in 2002, the peak
Donavan peaked in 2002, when 270 boys were given it, #678 among boys’ names. The 56 births of 2025 are 21% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 56 | #2,426 | 0.03 |
| 2024 | 37 | #3,230 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 55 | #2,449 | 0.03 |
| 2022 | 38 | #3,171 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 46 | #2,739 | 0.03 |
| 2020 | 52 | #2,473 | 0.03 |
| 2019 | 43 | #2,868 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 77 | #1,925 | 0.04 |
| 2017 | 94 | #1,685 | 0.05 |
| 2016 | 76 | #1,929 | 0.04 |
Every recorded year (105)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 95 | #1,658 | 0.05 |
| 2014 | 88 | #1,716 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 107 | #1,514 | 0.06 |
| 2012 | 122 | #1,378 | 0.06 |
| 2011 | 121 | #1,377 | 0.06 |
| 2010 | 172 | #1,110 | 0.09 |
| 2009 | 190 | #1,024 | 0.10 |
| 2008 | 208 | #963 | 0.10 |
| 2007 | 218 | #910 | 0.11 |
| 2006 | 251 | #813 | 0.12 |
| 2005 | 269 | #748 | 0.13 |
| 2004 | 258 | #732 | 0.13 |
| 2003 | 266 | #706 | 0.13 |
| 2002 | 270 | #678 | 0.14 |
| 2001 | 267 | #679 | 0.14 |
| 2000 | 233 | #735 | 0.12 |
| 1999 | 262 | #657 | 0.14 |
| 1998 | 244 | #689 | 0.13 |
| 1997 | 238 | #680 | 0.13 |
| 1996 | 193 | #762 | 0.10 |
| 1995 | 172 | #813 | 0.09 |
| 1994 | 205 | #733 | 0.11 |
| 1993 | 203 | #729 | 0.10 |
| 1992 | 214 | #701 | 0.11 |
| 1991 | 224 | #673 | 0.11 |
| 1990 | 160 | #799 | 0.08 |
| 1989 | 169 | #756 | 0.08 |
| 1988 | 121 | #861 | 0.06 |
| 1987 | 122 | #846 | 0.07 |
| 1986 | 108 | #874 | 0.06 |
| 1985 | 98 | #920 | 0.05 |
| 1984 | 69 | #1,077 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 63 | #1,134 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 48 | #1,366 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 67 | #1,114 | 0.04 |
| 1980 | 75 | #1,043 | 0.04 |
| 1979 | 62 | #1,140 | 0.04 |
| 1978 | 78 | #978 | 0.05 |
| 1977 | 84 | #928 | 0.05 |
| 1976 | 67 | #1,015 | 0.04 |
| 1975 | 65 | #1,023 | 0.04 |
| 1974 | 71 | #970 | 0.05 |
| 1973 | 68 | #979 | 0.04 |
| 1972 | 89 | #852 | 0.05 |
| 1971 | 75 | #943 | 0.04 |
| 1970 | 85 | #877 | 0.05 |
| 1969 | 92 | #805 | 0.05 |
| 1968 | 34 | #1,324 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 49 | #1,046 | 0.03 |
| 1966 | 25 | #1,546 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 26 | #1,531 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 24 | #1,623 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 22 | #1,710 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 21 | #1,772 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 22 | #1,750 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 14 | #2,237 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 29 | #1,471 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 12 | #2,401 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 13 | #2,296 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 23 | #1,655 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 19 | #1,802 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 18 | #1,845 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 14 | #2,119 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 14 | #2,096 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 19 | #1,740 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 5 | #3,817 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 10 | #2,492 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 10 | #2,490 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 12 | #2,273 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,055 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 13 | #1,948 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 10 | #2,347 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 5 | #3,674 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 15 | #1,888 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 8 | #2,708 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 12 | #2,106 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 15 | #1,817 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 13 | #2,008 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 7 | #2,984 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 8 | #2,689 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 10 | #2,426 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 10 | #2,438 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,084 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 9 | #2,686 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 18 | #1,716 | 0.02 |
| 1930 | 10 | #2,644 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 17 | #1,870 | 0.02 |
| 1926 | 6 | #3,819 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 10 | #2,797 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 11 | #2,694 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 7 | #3,555 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,318 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 5 | #4,508 | under 0.01 |
| 1920 | 9 | #3,016 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 9 | #2,936 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Donavan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Donavan has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 105 years of records.
Girls and boys named Donavan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Donavan, and how old are they?
7,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 8,305 Americans ever recorded as Donavan. The median Donavan alive today is 27 years old; half are between 20 and 37.
The 2020 Census counted 6,502 people named Donavan (65 women and girls, 6,437 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,574 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 37 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 214 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 929 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,130 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,530 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 857 |
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 Donavan born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 9 | #1,787 | 0.9× |
| California | 6 | #2,263 | 0.8× |
Where Donavan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Donavan is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1919 it was given 1.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Donavan 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 81,728 babies since 1880, Donavan is the second most given (10% of them). In 2025 it was given to 56 of their 706 babies (7.9%), again the second 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 Donavan
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 Donavan and names like it
- Compare Donavan and DonovanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDonavan peaked in 2002.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Donavan since 1910.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Donavan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Donavan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.