Gaven
Gaven was given to 6 boys in 2025, #11,118 among boys’ names; 3,839 Americans have been recorded with it since 1972 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,770 Americans named Gaven and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 17 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gaven by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Gaven?
#11,118 among boys’ names, 2025
Gaven fell from #2,368 in 2015 to #11,118 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 28.7 to 3.5 per million.
282 babies in 2003, the peak
Gaven peaked in 2003, when 282 boys were given it, #687 among boys’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 2% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #11,118 | under 0.01 |
| 2024 | 9 | #8,549 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 13 | #6,651 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 11 | #7,418 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 13 | #6,441 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 24 | #4,183 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 27 | #3,930 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 36 | #3,188 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 29 | #3,703 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 41 | #2,903 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 55 | #2,368 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 60 | #2,238 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 81 | #1,785 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 121 | #1,386 | 0.06 |
| 2011 | 142 | #1,232 | 0.07 |
| 2010 | 162 | #1,145 | 0.08 |
| 2009 | 179 | #1,057 | 0.09 |
| 2008 | 221 | #922 | 0.11 |
| 2007 | 223 | #899 | 0.11 |
| 2006 | 196 | #951 | 0.10 |
| 2005 | 258 | #770 | 0.13 |
| 2004 | 265 | #720 | 0.13 |
| 2003 | 282 | #687 | 0.14 |
| 2002 | 243 | #728 | 0.13 |
| 2001 | 195 | #833 | 0.10 |
| 2000 | 189 | #844 | 0.10 |
| 1999 | 152 | #949 | 0.08 |
| 1998 | 106 | #1,170 | 0.06 |
| 1997 | 93 | #1,242 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 68 | #1,484 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 55 | #1,652 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 44 | #1,901 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 37 | #2,133 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 34 | #2,225 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 26 | #2,625 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 31 | #2,268 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 13 | #4,106 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 8 | #5,372 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 9 | #4,595 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 10 | #4,151 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 11 | #3,779 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 14 | #3,126 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 6 | #5,894 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 9 | #4,273 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 8 | #4,647 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,367 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 8 | #4,070 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,487 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,240 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Gaven a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Gaven has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 49 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Gaven: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gaven, and how old are they?
3,770 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 3,839 Americans ever recorded as Gaven. The median Gaven alive today is 21 years old; half are between 17 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 3,350 people named Gaven (23 women and girls, 3,327 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,720 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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 | 29 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 359 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,980 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 402 |
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 Gaven born?
The states with the most babies named Gaven are Texas, Ohio and California, with 31% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 275 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 230 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| California | 218 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 155 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Michigan | 126 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Florida | 109 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New York | 105 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Indiana | 93 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Tennessee | 87 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 86 | not ranked | 0.7× |
Where Gaven is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Gaven is most over-represented in Ohio: since 1972 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 Gaven 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 200,611 babies since 1880, Gaven is the third most given (1.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 1,161 babies (<1%), again the third 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 Gaven
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 Gaven and names like it
- Compare Gaven and GavinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sGaven peaked in 2003.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Gaven since 1910.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Gaven.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Gaven alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with GMost given first.