Boys' name · since 2005
Kaivan
Kaivan has 27 recorded births since 2005 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2024 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #26,684 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- 27
- born since 2005
- 2020s
- peak decade
27 boys have been named Kaivan since 2005, though it isn't currently a top-ranked name.
Kaivan has 27 recorded births among boys since 2005, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used boys names, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2005 to 2024.
- #26,684 of 45,481 all-time among boys
- 27 born since 2005
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Kaivan ranks #26,684 of 45,481 boys' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 27 born since 2005, peaking in the 2020s.
- #26,684 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- 27
- born since 2005
- 2020s
- peak decade
Kaivan's 27 recorded births place it above 41.01% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Kaivan's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Kaivan splits its recorded history at 2023: 63% of all births land in the more recent half, 37% in the earlier half, a lean toward present-day use rather than a passing spike. The single quietest year was 2005 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2024 peak of 9 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Kaivan popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2005–2024
- Peak year (2024)
- 9
- Annual births at peak, across 20 years of records
Kaivan by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (17 births, 63% of the file).
2020s was Kaivan's strongest decade.
17 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 63% of all-time use.
Kaivan births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2000s 5
2000s
5 births
- 2010s 5
2010s
5 births
- 2020s
2020s
17 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 17 births (63% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Kaivan: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2005–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Kaivan draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.