Gavyn
Gavyn was given to 25 boys in 2025, #4,172 among boys’ names; 5,339 Americans have been recorded with it since 1986 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,270 Americans named Gavyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 14 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gavyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Gavyn mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Gavyn is “a male given name from the Celtic languages.”
Rare spelling variant of Gavin.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Gavyn?
#4,172 among boys’ names, 2025
Gavyn fell from #1,121 in 2015 to #4,172 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 89.2 to 14.6 per million.
395 babies in 2008, the peak
Gavyn peaked in 2008, when 395 babies were given it (390 boys, #631 among boys’ names). The 25 births of 2025 are 6% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25 | #4,172 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 21 | #4,751 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 37 | #3,243 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 41 | #3,021 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 46 | #2,745 | 0.03 |
| 2020 | 57 | #2,353 | 0.03 |
| 2019 | 63 | #2,221 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 92 | #1,709 | 0.05 |
| 2017 | 108 | #1,527 | 0.06 |
| 2016 | 131 | #1,361 | 0.07 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 171 | #1,121 | 0.09 |
| 2014 | 223 | #949 | 0.12 |
| 2013 | 232 | #900 | 0.12 |
| 2012 | 273 | #813 | 0.14 |
| 2011 | 292 | #770 | 0.15 |
| 2010 | 321 | #718 | 0.17 |
| 2009 | 344 | #700 | 0.17 |
| 2008 | 390 | #631 | 0.19 |
| 2007 | 377 | #644 | 0.18 |
| 2006 | 308 | #711 | 0.15 |
| 2005 | 289 | #708 | 0.14 |
| 2004 | 248 | #749 | 0.12 |
| 2003 | 260 | #716 | 0.13 |
| 2002 | 192 | #863 | 0.10 |
| 2001 | 161 | #954 | 0.08 |
| 2000 | 139 | #1,039 | 0.07 |
| 1999 | 107 | #1,195 | 0.06 |
| 1998 | 95 | #1,272 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 65 | #1,571 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 29 | #2,622 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 23 | #3,045 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 16 | #3,976 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 19 | #3,410 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 9 | #5,795 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 5 | #8,644 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 5 | #8,565 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 5 | #7,086 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Gavyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 5,339 Americans recorded as Gavyn, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 25 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Gavyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gavyn, and how old are they?
5,270 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 5,339 Americans ever recorded as Gavyn. The median Gavyn alive today is 18 years old; half are between 14 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 4,539 people named Gavyn (139 women and girls, 4,400 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,075 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 107 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,900 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,260 |
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 Gavyn born?
The states with the most babies named Gavyn are Texas, California and Ohio, with 27% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 396 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| California | 306 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 288 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Florida | 212 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 200 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 199 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Indiana | 178 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Illinois | 166 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Missouri | 142 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| New York | 128 | not ranked | 0.4× |
Where Gavyn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Gavyn is most over-represented in Indiana: since 1986 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 Gavyn 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, Gavyn is the second most given (2.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 25 of their 1,161 babies (2.2%), 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 Gavyn
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 Gavyn and names like it
- Compare Gavyn and GavinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sGavyn peaked in 2008.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Gavyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Gavyn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Gavyn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with GMost given first.