Kevan
Kevan was last recorded in 2024, when 10 babies were given it; 3,531 Americans have been recorded with it between 1945 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,060 Americans named Kevan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (87% of everyone recorded); the median is 44 years old and half are between 34 and 61.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kevan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kevan mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kevan is “a male given name from Irish, variant of Kevin.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kevan?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #8,049, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
92 babies in 1956, the peak
Kevan peaked in 1956, when 92 babies were given it (87 boys, #801 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 10 | #8,049 | 5.8 |
| 2023 | 6 | #11,585 | 3.5 |
| 2022 | 7 | #10,352 | 4.0 |
| 2021 | 8 | #9,283 | 4.6 |
| 2020 | 13 | #6,474 | 7.5 |
| 2019 | 11 | #7,412 | 6.1 |
| 2018 | 9 | #8,518 | 5.0 |
| 2017 | 18 | #5,204 | 9.7 |
| 2016 | 17 | #5,436 | 9.0 |
| 2015 | 6 | #11,443 | 3.1 |
Every recorded year (79)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 19 | #4,975 | 9.9 |
| 2013 | 10 | #7,840 | 5.3 |
| 2012 | 10 | #7,860 | 5.3 |
| 2011 | 13 | #6,427 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 15 | #5,899 | 7.8 |
| 2009 | 20 | #4,844 | 10.1 |
| 2008 | 24 | #4,200 | 11.8 |
| 2007 | 27 | #3,846 | 13.0 |
| 2006 | 17 | #5,196 | 8.3 |
| 2005 | 24 | #3,879 | 12.0 |
| 2004 | 32 | #3,116 | 16.1 |
| 2003 | 25 | #3,582 | 12.7 |
| 2002 | 43 | #2,389 | 22.1 |
| 2001 | 35 | #2,712 | 18.0 |
| 2000 | 42 | #2,311 | 21.4 |
| 1999 | 37 | #2,435 | 19.3 |
| 1998 | 37 | #2,366 | 19.4 |
| 1997 | 44 | #2,042 | 23.3 |
| 1996 | 40 | #2,122 | 21.1 |
| 1995 | 47 | #1,848 | 24.7 |
| 1994 | 49 | #1,787 | 25.4 |
| 1993 | 62 | #1,498 | 31.6 |
| 1992 | 70 | #1,352 | 35.0 |
| 1991 | 76 | #1,283 | 37.6 |
| 1990 | 79 | #1,240 | 38.5 |
| 1989 | 85 | #1,148 | 42.5 |
| 1988 | 81 | #1,111 | 42.3 |
| 1987 | 85 | #1,036 | 45.5 |
| 1986 | 88 | #985 | 47.8 |
| 1985 | 77 | #1,051 | 41.7 |
| 1984 | 50 | #1,336 | 27.7 |
| 1983 | 69 | #1,069 | 38.5 |
| 1982 | 69 | #1,099 | 38.0 |
| 1981 | 52 | #1,281 | 29.0 |
| 1980 | 58 | #1,208 | 32.5 |
| 1979 | 69 | #1,073 | 40.1 |
| 1978 | 58 | #1,173 | 35.3 |
| 1977 | 62 | #1,109 | 37.7 |
| 1976 | 47 | #1,298 | 30.0 |
| 1975 | 41 | #1,369 | 26.3 |
| 1974 | 42 | #1,323 | 26.7 |
| 1973 | 50 | #1,170 | 32.1 |
| 1972 | 64 | #1,011 | 39.5 |
| 1971 | 46 | #1,225 | 26.0 |
| 1970 | 54 | #1,124 | 29.1 |
| 1969 | 45 | #1,177 | 25.2 |
| 1968 | 51 | #1,040 | 29.3 |
| 1967 | 47 | #1,078 | 27.0 |
| 1966 | 47 | #1,081 | 26.4 |
| 1965 | 52 | #1,029 | 28.0 |
| 1964 | 55 | #1,022 | 27.6 |
| 1963 | 60 | #974 | 29.5 |
| 1962 | 63 | #961 | 30.5 |
| 1961 | 62 | #985 | 29.2 |
| 1960 | 75 | #880 | 35.2 |
| 1959 | 77 | #872 | 36.1 |
| 1958 | 78 | #859 | 36.8 |
| 1957 | 69 | #916 | 32.0 |
| 1956 | 87 | #801 | 41.1 |
| 1955 | 72 | #869 | 35.0 |
| 1954 | 74 | #846 | 36.3 |
| 1953 | 47 | #1,069 | 23.8 |
| 1952 | 51 | #1,007 | 26.2 |
| 1951 | 37 | #1,205 | 19.7 |
| 1950 | 33 | #1,264 | 18.4 |
| 1949 | 20 | #1,686 | 11.3 |
| 1948 | 18 | #1,785 | 10.3 |
| 1947 | 5 | #4,010 | 2.7 |
| 1945 | 5 | #3,556 | 3.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kevan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,531 Americans recorded as Kevan, 1% are girls and 99% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kevan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kevan, and how old are they?
3,060 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 87% of the 3,531 Americans ever recorded as Kevan. The median Kevan alive today is 44 years old; half are between 34 and 61.
The 2020 Census counted 3,194 people named Kevan (150 women and girls, 3,044 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,149 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 2 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 722 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 737 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,030 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 437 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 133 |
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 Kevan born?
The states with the most babies named Kevan are California, Texas and Ohio, with 66% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 358 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Texas | 130 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 76 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| New York | 69 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 51 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 46 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Utah | 28 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 27 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Michigan | 16 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Colorado | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
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 Kevan 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 1,212,537 babies since 1880, Kevan is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,716 babies recorded by SSA was a Kevan (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Kevan
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 Kevan and names like it
- Compare Kevan and KevinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sKevan peaked in 1956.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kevan since 1910.
- The top names of 1956The year the most babies were named Kevan.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Kevan alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.