Donaven
Donaven was given to 7 boys in 2025, #9,955 among boys’ names; 1,186 Americans have been recorded with it since 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,160 Americans named Donaven and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 17 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Donaven by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Donaven?
#9,955 among boys’ names, 2025
Donaven fell from #5,568 in 2015 to #9,955 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 8.3 to 4.1 per million.
66 babies in 2002, the peak
Donaven peaked in 2002, when 66 boys were given it, #1,746 among boys’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #9,955 | 4.1 |
| 2024 | 7 | #10,166 | 4.1 |
| 2023 | 6 | #11,184 | 3.5 |
| 2022 | 10 | #7,907 | 5.7 |
| 2021 | 5 | #12,632 | 2.9 |
| 2020 | 9 | #8,238 | 5.2 |
| 2019 | 7 | #10,009 | 3.9 |
| 2018 | 7 | #9,942 | 3.9 |
| 2017 | 11 | #7,222 | 5.9 |
| 2016 | 10 | #7,740 | 5.3 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 16 | #5,568 | 8.3 |
| 2014 | 19 | #4,925 | 9.9 |
| 2013 | 15 | #5,730 | 7.9 |
| 2012 | 29 | #3,633 | 15.3 |
| 2011 | 53 | #2,384 | 27.9 |
| 2010 | 41 | #2,885 | 21.4 |
| 2009 | 58 | #2,261 | 29.2 |
| 2008 | 46 | #2,692 | 22.5 |
| 2007 | 62 | #2,171 | 29.9 |
| 2006 | 62 | #2,112 | 30.2 |
| 2005 | 59 | #2,086 | 29.5 |
| 2004 | 44 | #2,499 | 22.2 |
| 2003 | 56 | #2,032 | 28.3 |
| 2002 | 66 | #1,746 | 34.0 |
| 2001 | 64 | #1,765 | 32.9 |
| 2000 | 46 | #2,174 | 23.4 |
| 1999 | 43 | #2,173 | 22.4 |
| 1998 | 55 | #1,812 | 28.8 |
| 1997 | 35 | #2,356 | 18.6 |
| 1996 | 27 | #2,767 | 14.3 |
| 1995 | 33 | #2,361 | 17.3 |
| 1994 | 17 | #3,783 | 8.8 |
| 1993 | 25 | #2,797 | 12.7 |
| 1992 | 19 | #3,360 | 9.5 |
| 1991 | 26 | #2,617 | 12.9 |
| 1990 | 21 | #2,980 | 10.2 |
| 1989 | 11 | #4,591 | 5.5 |
| 1988 | 13 | #3,751 | 6.8 |
| 1987 | 7 | #5,651 | 3.7 |
| 1986 | 9 | #4,566 | 4.9 |
| 1985 | 8 | #4,815 | 4.3 |
| 1984 | 6 | #5,767 | 3.3 |
| 1981 | 6 | #5,683 | 3.3 |
| 1978 | 5 | #6,065 | 3.0 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,299 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Donaven a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Donaven has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 45 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Donaven: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Donaven, and how old are they?
1,160 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,186 Americans ever recorded as Donaven. The median Donaven alive today is 23 years old; half are between 17 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 866 people named Donaven (0 women and girls, 866 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,127 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 9 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 218 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 805 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 128 |
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 Donaven born?
The states with the most babies named Donaven are California, Texas and Michigan, with 80% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 118 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 77 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 30 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 23 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 18 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| North Carolina | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| New York | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Tennessee | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
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 Donaven 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, Donaven is the fifth most given (1.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 706 babies (<1%), again the fifth 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 Donaven
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 Donaven and names like it
- Compare Donaven and DonovanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDonaven peaked in 2002.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Donaven since 1910.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Donaven.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Donaven alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.