Kavan
Kavan was given to 7 boys in 2025, #10,193 among boys’ names; 885 Americans have been recorded with it since 1968 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kavan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kavan?
#10,193 among boys’ names, 2025
Kavan fell from #4,805 in 2015 to #10,193 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 10.4 to 4.1 per million.
41 babies in 2005, the peak
Kavan peaked in 2005, when 41 boys were given it, #2,681 among boys’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 17% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #10,193 | 4.1 |
| 2024 | 15 | #6,034 | 8.7 |
| 2023 | 8 | #9,353 | 4.7 |
| 2022 | 9 | #8,651 | 5.2 |
| 2021 | 14 | #6,181 | 8.0 |
| 2020 | 16 | #5,572 | 9.3 |
| 2019 | 14 | #6,252 | 7.8 |
| 2018 | 13 | #6,530 | 7.2 |
| 2017 | 23 | #4,394 | 12.4 |
| 2016 | 13 | #6,533 | 6.9 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 20 | #4,805 | 10.4 |
| 2014 | 11 | #7,293 | 5.7 |
| 2013 | 23 | #4,247 | 12.2 |
| 2012 | 36 | #3,140 | 19.0 |
| 2011 | 33 | #3,335 | 17.4 |
| 2010 | 34 | #3,275 | 17.7 |
| 2009 | 38 | #3,078 | 19.2 |
| 2008 | 24 | #4,196 | 11.8 |
| 2007 | 30 | #3,559 | 14.5 |
| 2006 | 33 | #3,274 | 16.1 |
| 2005 | 41 | #2,681 | 20.5 |
| 2004 | 37 | #2,813 | 18.6 |
| 2003 | 28 | #3,321 | 14.2 |
| 2002 | 31 | #2,979 | 16.0 |
| 2001 | 32 | #2,894 | 16.5 |
| 2000 | 29 | #3,031 | 14.8 |
| 1999 | 30 | #2,827 | 15.6 |
| 1998 | 29 | #2,822 | 15.2 |
| 1997 | 26 | #2,937 | 13.8 |
| 1996 | 20 | #3,474 | 10.6 |
| 1995 | 28 | #2,648 | 14.7 |
| 1994 | 19 | #3,522 | 9.8 |
| 1993 | 19 | #3,435 | 9.7 |
| 1991 | 7 | #6,907 | 3.5 |
| 1990 | 11 | #4,833 | 5.4 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,580 | 3.5 |
| 1988 | 8 | #5,457 | 4.2 |
| 1987 | 12 | #3,858 | 6.4 |
| 1986 | 5 | #7,273 | 2.7 |
| 1985 | 5 | #7,072 | 2.7 |
| 1984 | 7 | #5,271 | 3.9 |
| 1983 | 8 | #4,709 | 4.5 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,761 | 2.8 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,343 | 3.0 |
| 1975 | 5 | #5,903 | 3.2 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,365 | 3.1 |
| 1969 | 7 | #3,767 | 3.9 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,430 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kavan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kavan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 48 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kavan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kavan, and how old are they?
An estimated 865 Americans named Kavan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 14 and 28. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 823 people named Kavan (15 women and girls, 808 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 806 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 13,507 babies since 1880, Kavan is the eighth most given (6.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 220 babies (3.2%), again the eighth 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 Kavan
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 Kavan and names like it
- Compare Kavan and KavinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKavan peaked in 2005.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kavan since 1910.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Kavan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kavan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.