Donavin
Donavin was given to 8 boys in 2025, #9,126 among boys’ names; 2,343 Americans have been recorded with it since 1964 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,290 Americans named Donavin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 17 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Donavin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Donavin?
#9,126 among boys’ names, 2025
Donavin fell from #3,171 in 2015 to #9,126 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 18.8 to 4.7 per million.
148 babies in 2005, the peak
Donavin peaked in 2005, when 148 boys were given it, #1,112 among boys’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 5% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #9,126 | 4.7 |
| 2023 | 14 | #6,289 | 8.2 |
| 2022 | 20 | #4,892 | 11.5 |
| 2021 | 15 | #5,839 | 8.6 |
| 2020 | 27 | #3,846 | 15.6 |
| 2019 | 18 | #5,210 | 10.0 |
| 2018 | 27 | #3,911 | 14.9 |
| 2017 | 33 | #3,396 | 17.8 |
| 2016 | 42 | #2,847 | 22.1 |
| 2015 | 36 | #3,171 | 18.8 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 35 | #3,166 | 18.2 |
| 2013 | 50 | #2,469 | 26.4 |
| 2012 | 53 | #2,385 | 27.9 |
| 2011 | 65 | #2,063 | 34.2 |
| 2010 | 83 | #1,783 | 43.3 |
| 2009 | 94 | #1,669 | 47.4 |
| 2008 | 122 | #1,393 | 59.8 |
| 2007 | 124 | #1,353 | 59.7 |
| 2006 | 117 | #1,375 | 56.9 |
| 2005 | 148 | #1,112 | 74.1 |
| 2004 | 128 | #1,195 | 64.5 |
| 2003 | 146 | #1,061 | 73.9 |
| 2002 | 117 | #1,194 | 60.3 |
| 2001 | 90 | #1,386 | 46.3 |
| 2000 | 86 | #1,432 | 43.8 |
| 1999 | 64 | #1,657 | 33.3 |
| 1998 | 63 | #1,648 | 33.0 |
| 1997 | 56 | #1,733 | 29.7 |
| 1996 | 59 | #1,640 | 31.1 |
| 1995 | 42 | #1,990 | 22.1 |
| 1994 | 33 | #2,355 | 17.1 |
| 1993 | 51 | #1,700 | 26.0 |
| 1992 | 39 | #2,005 | 19.5 |
| 1991 | 29 | #2,417 | 14.4 |
| 1990 | 16 | #3,642 | 7.8 |
| 1989 | 19 | #3,116 | 9.5 |
| 1988 | 12 | #3,972 | 6.3 |
| 1987 | 12 | #3,787 | 6.4 |
| 1986 | 9 | #4,567 | 4.9 |
| 1985 | 13 | #3,457 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 8 | #4,664 | 4.4 |
| 1983 | 9 | #4,231 | 5.0 |
| 1982 | 8 | #4,709 | 4.4 |
| 1981 | 13 | #3,269 | 7.3 |
| 1980 | 12 | #3,470 | 6.7 |
| 1979 | 8 | #4,524 | 4.6 |
| 1978 | 8 | #4,257 | 4.9 |
| 1977 | 7 | #4,727 | 4.3 |
| 1976 | 8 | #4,107 | 5.1 |
| 1975 | 7 | #4,450 | 4.5 |
| 1974 | 7 | #4,294 | 4.5 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,190 | 4.5 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,171 | 3.1 |
| 1971 | 8 | #3,746 | 4.5 |
| 1969 | 7 | #3,688 | 3.9 |
| 1964 | 6 | #3,723 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Donavin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Donavin has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 56 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Donavin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Donavin, and how old are they?
2,290 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,343 Americans ever recorded as Donavin. The median Donavin alive today is 22 years old; half are between 17 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 1,753 people named Donavin (14 women and girls, 1,739 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,229 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 5 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 76 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 356 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,530 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 322 |
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 Donavin born?
The states with the most babies named Donavin are California, Michigan and Texas, with 47% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 182 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 114 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Texas | 106 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 92 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| New York | 80 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 67 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 37 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Washington | 29 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 28 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Indiana | 24 | not ranked | 0.4× |
Where Donavin is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Donavin is most over-represented in Michigan: since 1964 it was given 1.5 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 Donavin 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, Donavin is the fourth most given (2.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 706 babies (1.1%), again the fourth 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 Donavin
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 Donavin and names like it
- Compare Donavin and DonovanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDonavin peaked in 2005.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Donavin since 1910.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Donavin.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Donavin alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.