Kavon
Kavon was given to 35 boys in 2025, #3,347 among boys’ names; 2,827 Americans have been recorded with it since 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,770 Americans named Kavon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 16 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kavon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kavon?
#3,347 among boys’ names, 2025
Kavon fell from #3,188 in 2015 to #3,347 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 18.8 to 20.5 per million.
169 babies in 2000, the peak
Kavon peaked in 2000, when 169 babies were given it (163 boys, #933 among boys’ names). The 35 births of 2025 are 21% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35 | #3,347 | 20.5 |
| 2024 | 36 | #3,304 | 20.9 |
| 2023 | 37 | #3,257 | 21.6 |
| 2022 | 49 | #2,693 | 28.1 |
| 2021 | 48 | #2,675 | 27.4 |
| 2020 | 41 | #2,904 | 23.8 |
| 2019 | 40 | #3,023 | 22.3 |
| 2018 | 28 | #3,832 | 15.4 |
| 2017 | 37 | #3,160 | 20.0 |
| 2016 | 41 | #2,909 | 21.6 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 36 | #3,188 | 18.8 |
| 2014 | 45 | #2,684 | 23.4 |
| 2013 | 63 | #2,126 | 33.3 |
| 2012 | 68 | #2,039 | 35.8 |
| 2011 | 65 | #2,070 | 34.2 |
| 2010 | 63 | #2,134 | 32.8 |
| 2009 | 86 | #1,766 | 43.4 |
| 2008 | 102 | #1,568 | 50.0 |
| 2007 | 90 | #1,691 | 43.4 |
| 2006 | 108 | #1,441 | 52.5 |
| 2005 | 106 | #1,405 | 53.1 |
| 2004 | 118 | #1,276 | 59.4 |
| 2003 | 106 | #1,313 | 53.7 |
| 2002 | 129 | #1,119 | 66.4 |
| 2001 | 158 | #975 | 81.3 |
| 2000 | 163 | #933 | 83.0 |
| 1999 | 104 | #1,218 | 54.2 |
| 1998 | 92 | #1,295 | 48.1 |
| 1997 | 73 | #1,471 | 38.7 |
| 1996 | 73 | #1,429 | 38.5 |
| 1995 | 69 | #1,438 | 36.2 |
| 1994 | 90 | #1,211 | 46.6 |
| 1993 | 60 | #1,525 | 30.6 |
| 1992 | 60 | #1,501 | 30.0 |
| 1991 | 67 | #1,385 | 33.2 |
| 1990 | 46 | #1,738 | 22.4 |
| 1989 | 27 | #2,436 | 13.5 |
| 1988 | 17 | #3,143 | 8.9 |
| 1987 | 20 | #2,677 | 10.7 |
| 1986 | 16 | #3,064 | 8.7 |
| 1985 | 15 | #3,147 | 8.1 |
| 1984 | 12 | #3,571 | 6.6 |
| 1983 | 13 | #3,324 | 7.3 |
| 1982 | 7 | #5,321 | 3.9 |
| 1981 | 9 | #4,339 | 5.0 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,763 | 2.8 |
| 1978 | 8 | #4,363 | 4.9 |
| 1976 | 5 | #6,034 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kavon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,827 Americans recorded as Kavon, 1% are girls and 99% boys. In 2025 it went to 35 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kavon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kavon, and how old are they?
2,770 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,827 Americans ever recorded as Kavon. The median Kavon alive today is 23 years old; half are between 16 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 2,099 people named Kavon (80 women and girls, 2,019 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,551 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 17 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 599 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,620 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 532 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Kavon born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Carolina | 5 | #807 | 0.9× |
Where Kavon is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kavon is most over-represented in Maryland: since 1976 it was given 2.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Kavon with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 13,507 babies since 1880, Kavon is the second most given (21% of them). In 2025 it was given to 35 of their 220 babies (16%), the third 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 Kavon
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 Kavon and names like it
- Compare Kavon and KavinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKavon peaked in 2000.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kavon since 1910.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Kavon.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kavon alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.