Kaveh
Kaveh was given to 13 boys in 2025, #6,638 among boys’ names; 421 Americans have been recorded with it since 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kaveh by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kaveh?
#6,638 among boys’ names, 2025
Kaveh rose from #11,409 in 2015 to #6,638 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 3.1 to 7.6 per million.
18 babies in 1983, the peak
Kaveh peaked in 1983, when 18 boys were given it, #2,622 among boys’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 72% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #6,638 | 7.6 |
| 2024 | 5 | #13,278 | 2.9 |
| 2023 | 13 | #6,713 | 7.6 |
| 2022 | 9 | #8,652 | 5.2 |
| 2021 | 10 | #7,866 | 5.7 |
| 2020 | 8 | #9,140 | 4.6 |
| 2019 | 17 | #5,447 | 9.5 |
| 2018 | 10 | #7,893 | 5.5 |
| 2017 | 10 | #7,871 | 5.4 |
| 2016 | 6 | #11,456 | 3.2 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 6 | #11,409 | 3.1 |
| 2014 | 8 | #9,214 | 4.2 |
| 2012 | 8 | #9,293 | 4.2 |
| 2011 | 13 | #6,414 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 9 | #8,458 | 4.7 |
| 2009 | 7 | #10,445 | 3.5 |
| 2008 | 6 | #11,835 | 2.9 |
| 2007 | 10 | #7,885 | 4.8 |
| 2006 | 6 | #11,356 | 2.9 |
| 2005 | 6 | #10,796 | 3.0 |
| 2004 | 8 | #8,537 | 4.0 |
| 2003 | 7 | #9,164 | 3.5 |
| 2002 | 8 | #8,060 | 4.1 |
| 2001 | 8 | #7,939 | 4.1 |
| 2000 | 9 | #7,107 | 4.6 |
| 1999 | 8 | #7,509 | 4.2 |
| 1998 | 8 | #7,209 | 4.2 |
| 1997 | 10 | #5,869 | 5.3 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,462 | 3.2 |
| 1994 | 7 | #7,363 | 3.6 |
| 1992 | 5 | #9,115 | 2.5 |
| 1991 | 5 | #8,885 | 2.5 |
| 1990 | 11 | #4,834 | 5.4 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,581 | 3.5 |
| 1988 | 12 | #4,048 | 6.3 |
| 1987 | 11 | #4,101 | 5.9 |
| 1986 | 8 | #5,102 | 4.3 |
| 1985 | 13 | #3,512 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 6 | #5,976 | 3.3 |
| 1983 | 18 | #2,622 | 10.0 |
| 1982 | 5 | #6,867 | 2.8 |
| 1981 | 9 | #4,338 | 5.0 |
| 1980 | 10 | #3,994 | 5.6 |
| 1979 | 12 | #3,455 | 7.0 |
| 1978 | 8 | #4,362 | 4.9 |
| 1977 | 9 | #4,008 | 5.5 |
| 1976 | 5 | #6,033 | 3.2 |
| 1973 | 8 | #3,888 | 5.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kaveh a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kaveh 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 Kaveh: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kaveh, and how old are they?
An estimated 407 Americans named Kaveh and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 11 and 40. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 924 people named Kaveh (1 woman or girl, 923 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 355 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,389 babies since 1880, Kaveh is the second most given (30% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 82 babies (16%), 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 Kaveh
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 Kaveh and names like it
- Compare Kaveh and KaviBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sKaveh peaked in 1983.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kaveh since 1910.
- The top names of 1983The year the most babies were named Kaveh.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kaveh alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.