Donivan
Donivan was given to 5 boys in 2025, #12,527 among boys’ names; 1,181 Americans have been recorded with it since 1913 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,070 Americans named Donivan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 18 and 33.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Donivan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Donivan?
#12,527 among boys’ names, 2025
Donivan fell from #6,070 in 2015 to #12,527 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 7.3 to 2.9 per million.
56 babies in 2007, the peak
Donivan peaked in 2007, when 56 boys were given it, #2,312 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #12,527 | 2.9 |
| 2024 | 6 | #11,283 | 3.5 |
| 2022 | 7 | #10,071 | 4.0 |
| 2021 | 13 | #6,416 | 7.4 |
| 2020 | 9 | #8,239 | 5.2 |
| 2019 | 12 | #6,877 | 6.7 |
| 2018 | 16 | #5,595 | 8.8 |
| 2017 | 5 | #12,785 | 2.7 |
| 2016 | 13 | #6,444 | 6.9 |
| 2015 | 14 | #6,070 | 7.3 |
Every recorded year (75)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 18 | #5,104 | 9.4 |
| 2013 | 20 | #4,660 | 10.6 |
| 2012 | 24 | #4,164 | 12.7 |
| 2011 | 32 | #3,381 | 16.8 |
| 2010 | 33 | #3,328 | 17.2 |
| 2009 | 40 | #2,963 | 20.2 |
| 2008 | 47 | #2,639 | 23.0 |
| 2007 | 56 | #2,312 | 27.0 |
| 2006 | 39 | #2,889 | 19.0 |
| 2005 | 42 | #2,626 | 21.0 |
| 2004 | 36 | #2,854 | 18.1 |
| 2003 | 40 | #2,554 | 20.2 |
| 2002 | 36 | #2,648 | 18.5 |
| 2001 | 45 | #2,254 | 23.2 |
| 2000 | 38 | #2,485 | 19.3 |
| 1999 | 37 | #2,410 | 19.3 |
| 1998 | 32 | #2,608 | 16.7 |
| 1997 | 26 | #2,917 | 13.8 |
| 1996 | 25 | #2,946 | 13.2 |
| 1995 | 17 | #3,735 | 8.9 |
| 1994 | 26 | #2,788 | 13.5 |
| 1993 | 26 | #2,726 | 13.3 |
| 1992 | 19 | #3,361 | 9.5 |
| 1991 | 17 | #3,495 | 8.4 |
| 1990 | 9 | #5,488 | 4.4 |
| 1989 | 14 | #3,859 | 7.0 |
| 1988 | 7 | #5,934 | 3.7 |
| 1987 | 10 | #4,330 | 5.4 |
| 1986 | 14 | #3,302 | 7.6 |
| 1985 | 12 | #3,647 | 6.5 |
| 1984 | 12 | #3,513 | 6.6 |
| 1983 | 9 | #4,235 | 5.0 |
| 1982 | 10 | #4,020 | 5.5 |
| 1981 | 5 | #6,537 | 2.8 |
| 1980 | 8 | #4,611 | 4.5 |
| 1979 | 6 | #5,541 | 3.5 |
| 1978 | 12 | #3,261 | 7.3 |
| 1977 | 10 | #3,674 | 6.1 |
| 1976 | 7 | #4,554 | 4.5 |
| 1975 | 7 | #4,453 | 4.5 |
| 1974 | 6 | #4,781 | 3.8 |
| 1972 | 8 | #3,718 | 4.9 |
| 1970 | 7 | #3,951 | 3.8 |
| 1969 | 10 | #2,914 | 5.6 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,285 | 2.9 |
| 1967 | 8 | #3,056 | 4.6 |
| 1961 | 11 | #2,583 | 5.2 |
| 1959 | 6 | #3,705 | 2.8 |
| 1957 | 5 | #4,131 | 2.3 |
| 1954 | 6 | #3,544 | 2.9 |
| 1951 | 5 | #3,847 | 2.7 |
| 1950 | 8 | #2,828 | 4.5 |
| 1949 | 6 | #3,412 | 3.4 |
| 1948 | 5 | #3,806 | 2.8 |
| 1946 | 6 | #3,260 | 3.7 |
| 1938 | 5 | #3,656 | 4.5 |
| 1937 | 5 | #3,657 | 4.7 |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,091 | 7.3 |
| 1926 | 5 | #4,370 | 4.5 |
| 1923 | 5 | #4,392 | 4.6 |
| 1920 | 5 | #4,463 | 4.7 |
| 1917 | 6 | #3,653 | 6.5 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,071 | 5.6 |
| 1915 | 6 | #3,505 | 7.1 |
| 1913 | 6 | #2,571 | 11.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Donivan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Donivan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 75 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Donivan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Donivan, and how old are they?
1,070 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 91% of the 1,181 Americans ever recorded as Donivan. The median Donivan alive today is 24 years old; half are between 18 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 944 people named Donivan (8 women and girls, 936 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,055 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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 | 2 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 37 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 84 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 221 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 593 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 137 |
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 81,728 babies since 1880, Donivan is the sixth most given (1.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 706 babies (<1%), 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 Donivan
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 Donivan and names like it
- Compare Donivan and DonovanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDonivan peaked in 2007.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Donivan since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Donivan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Donivan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.