Nevan
Nevan was given to 14 boys in 2025, #6,336 among boys’ names; 1,189 Americans have been recorded with it since 1986 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,170 Americans named Nevan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 13 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nevan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nevan?
#6,336 among boys’ names, 2025
Nevan fell from #3,202 in 2015 to #6,336 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 18.8 to 8.2 per million.
75 babies in 2004, the peak
Nevan peaked in 2004, when 75 boys were given it, #1,709 among boys’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 19% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #6,336 | 8.2 |
| 2024 | 17 | #5,588 | 9.9 |
| 2023 | 24 | #4,423 | 14.0 |
| 2022 | 20 | #4,968 | 11.5 |
| 2021 | 19 | #5,057 | 10.9 |
| 2020 | 19 | #4,979 | 11.0 |
| 2019 | 12 | #7,052 | 6.7 |
| 2018 | 23 | #4,446 | 12.7 |
| 2017 | 19 | #5,053 | 10.3 |
| 2016 | 32 | #3,495 | 16.9 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 36 | #3,202 | 18.8 |
| 2014 | 44 | #2,736 | 22.9 |
| 2013 | 43 | #2,747 | 22.7 |
| 2012 | 42 | #2,855 | 22.1 |
| 2011 | 52 | #2,429 | 27.4 |
| 2010 | 49 | #2,539 | 25.5 |
| 2009 | 72 | #1,969 | 36.3 |
| 2008 | 57 | #2,315 | 27.9 |
| 2007 | 69 | #2,029 | 33.2 |
| 2006 | 69 | #1,961 | 33.6 |
| 2005 | 65 | #1,956 | 32.5 |
| 2004 | 75 | #1,709 | 37.8 |
| 2003 | 63 | #1,879 | 31.9 |
| 2002 | 57 | #1,960 | 29.4 |
| 2001 | 27 | #3,292 | 13.9 |
| 2000 | 32 | #2,840 | 16.3 |
| 1999 | 30 | #2,840 | 15.6 |
| 1998 | 23 | #3,355 | 12.0 |
| 1997 | 12 | #5,174 | 6.4 |
| 1996 | 13 | #4,799 | 6.9 |
| 1995 | 11 | #5,400 | 5.8 |
| 1994 | 11 | #5,340 | 5.7 |
| 1993 | 5 | #9,715 | 2.5 |
| 1992 | 8 | #6,505 | 4.0 |
| 1991 | 8 | #6,342 | 4.0 |
| 1990 | 7 | #6,935 | 3.4 |
| 1986 | 5 | #7,477 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Nevan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nevan has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 37 years of records.
Girls and boys named Nevan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nevan, and how old are they?
1,170 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,189 Americans ever recorded as Nevan. The median Nevan alive today is 18 years old; half are between 13 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 1,049 people named Nevan (40 women and girls, 1,009 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,069 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 65 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 787 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 320 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 8,496 babies since 1880, Nevan is the second most given (14% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 49 babies (29%), 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 Nevan
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 Nevan and names like it
- Compare Nevan and NevinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sNevan peaked in 2004.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nevan since 1910.
- The top names of 2004The year the most babies were named Nevan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Nevan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.