Kaven
Kaven was given to 23 boys in 2025, #4,470 among boys’ names; 953 Americans have been recorded with it since 1951 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kaven by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kaven?
#4,470 among boys’ names, 2025
Kaven fell from #4,228 in 2015 to #4,470 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 12.5 to 13.5 per million.
44 babies in 2013, the peak
Kaven peaked in 2013, when 44 boys were given it, #2,685 among boys’ names. The 23 births of 2025 are 52% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23 | #4,470 | 13.5 |
| 2024 | 19 | #5,165 | 11.0 |
| 2023 | 27 | #4,064 | 15.8 |
| 2022 | 36 | #3,307 | 20.6 |
| 2021 | 26 | #4,066 | 14.9 |
| 2020 | 17 | #5,358 | 9.8 |
| 2019 | 18 | #5,255 | 10.0 |
| 2018 | 33 | #3,415 | 18.2 |
| 2017 | 20 | #4,843 | 10.8 |
| 2016 | 28 | #3,837 | 14.8 |
Every recorded year (59)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 24 | #4,228 | 12.5 |
| 2014 | 27 | #3,844 | 14.1 |
| 2013 | 44 | #2,685 | 23.3 |
| 2012 | 26 | #3,949 | 13.7 |
| 2011 | 35 | #3,208 | 18.4 |
| 2010 | 31 | #3,497 | 16.2 |
| 2009 | 35 | #3,244 | 17.6 |
| 2008 | 34 | #3,311 | 16.7 |
| 2007 | 29 | #3,647 | 14.0 |
| 2006 | 29 | #3,563 | 14.1 |
| 2005 | 30 | #3,347 | 15.0 |
| 2004 | 23 | #3,940 | 11.6 |
| 2003 | 21 | #4,047 | 10.6 |
| 2002 | 20 | #4,117 | 10.3 |
| 2001 | 13 | #5,521 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 17 | #4,477 | 8.7 |
| 1999 | 20 | #3,766 | 10.4 |
| 1998 | 17 | #4,106 | 8.9 |
| 1997 | 8 | #6,944 | 4.2 |
| 1996 | 14 | #4,502 | 7.4 |
| 1995 | 16 | #3,959 | 8.4 |
| 1994 | 7 | #7,364 | 3.6 |
| 1993 | 15 | #4,125 | 7.6 |
| 1992 | 8 | #6,397 | 4.0 |
| 1991 | 6 | #7,761 | 3.0 |
| 1990 | 7 | #6,801 | 3.4 |
| 1989 | 5 | #8,565 | 2.5 |
| 1988 | 9 | #5,003 | 4.7 |
| 1987 | 9 | #4,752 | 4.8 |
| 1986 | 5 | #7,274 | 2.7 |
| 1985 | 11 | #3,918 | 6.0 |
| 1984 | 5 | #6,841 | 2.8 |
| 1982 | 8 | #4,812 | 4.4 |
| 1981 | 6 | #5,879 | 3.3 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,762 | 2.8 |
| 1978 | 5 | #6,297 | 3.0 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,491 | 3.7 |
| 1972 | 6 | #4,718 | 3.7 |
| 1970 | 5 | #5,091 | 2.7 |
| 1969 | 5 | #4,716 | 2.8 |
| 1968 | 11 | #2,666 | 6.3 |
| 1967 | 6 | #3,770 | 3.4 |
| 1966 | 7 | #3,379 | 3.9 |
| 1965 | 8 | #3,114 | 4.3 |
| 1963 | 7 | #3,492 | 3.4 |
| 1961 | 5 | #4,365 | 2.4 |
| 1960 | 5 | #4,334 | 2.3 |
| 1957 | 6 | #3,773 | 2.8 |
| 1951 | 5 | #3,989 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kaven a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kaven has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 59 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kaven: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kaven, and how old are they?
An estimated 922 Americans named Kaven and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 10 and 27. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 870 people named Kaven (73 women and girls, 797 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 788 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% above 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 13,507 babies since 1880, Kaven is the seventh most given (7.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 23 of their 220 babies (10%), the sixth most given that year.
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 Kaven
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 Kaven and names like it
- Compare Kaven and KavinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- The top names of 2013The year the most babies were named Kaven.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kaven alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.