Gavynn
Gavynn was last recorded in 2018, when 6 babies were given it; 223 Americans have been recorded with it between 1997 and 2018 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gavynn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Gavynn?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,230, in 2018; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
16 babies in 2013, the peak
Gavynn peaked in 2013, when 16 boys were given it, #5,469 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 6 | #11,230 | 3.3 |
| 2016 | 7 | #10,001 | 3.7 |
| 2015 | 10 | #7,665 | 5.2 |
| 2014 | 9 | #8,362 | 4.7 |
| 2013 | 16 | #5,469 | 8.5 |
| 2012 | 11 | #7,204 | 5.8 |
| 2011 | 15 | #5,755 | 7.9 |
| 2010 | 13 | #6,472 | 6.8 |
| 2009 | 11 | #7,365 | 5.5 |
| 2008 | 14 | #6,176 | 6.9 |
Every recorded year (21)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 13 | #6,379 | 6.3 |
| 2006 | 14 | #5,880 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 11 | #6,785 | 5.5 |
| 2004 | 13 | #5,912 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 14 | #5,354 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 11 | #6,222 | 5.7 |
| 2001 | 10 | #6,613 | 5.1 |
| 2000 | 7 | #8,487 | 3.6 |
| 1999 | 6 | #9,078 | 3.1 |
| 1998 | 7 | #7,855 | 3.7 |
| 1997 | 5 | #9,760 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Gavynn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Gavynn has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 21 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Gavynn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gavynn, and how old are they?
An estimated 220 Americans named Gavynn 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 23. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 223 people named Gavynn (24 women and girls, 199 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 221 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Gavynn?
Gavynn is a less common spelling of Gavin: SSA has recorded 223 Gavynn and 189,665 Gavin since 1880.
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 200,611 babies since 1880, Gavynn is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,161 babies recorded by SSA was a Gavynn (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Gavynn
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 Gavynn and names like it
- Compare Gavynn and GavinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sGavynn peaked in 2013.
- The top names of 2013The year the most babies were named Gavynn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Gavynn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with GMost given first.