Taven
Taven is given to both girls and boys: 7 girls and 17 boys were given it in 2025 (#13,059 among girls’ names and #5,582 among boys’, #9,336 among all names counting both); 1,765 Americans have been recorded with it since 1986 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,740 Americans named Taven and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 12 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Taven by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Taven?
#5,582 among boys’ names, 2025
Taven fell from #2,226 in 2015 to #5,582 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 31.8 to 10.0 per million.
158 babies in 2007, the peak
Taven peaked in 2007, when 158 boys were given it, #1,138 among boys’ names. The 24 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 15% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #5,582 | 10.0 |
| 2024 | 28 | #3,968 | 16.3 |
| 2023 | 44 | #2,887 | 25.7 |
| 2022 | 31 | #3,680 | 17.8 |
| 2021 | 26 | #4,105 | 14.9 |
| 2020 | 25 | #4,123 | 14.5 |
| 2019 | 34 | #3,413 | 18.9 |
| 2018 | 31 | #3,594 | 17.1 |
| 2017 | 43 | #2,835 | 23.2 |
| 2016 | 44 | #2,766 | 23.2 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 61 | #2,226 | 31.8 |
| 2014 | 49 | #2,537 | 25.5 |
| 2013 | 68 | #2,015 | 35.9 |
| 2012 | 109 | #1,488 | 57.5 |
| 2011 | 102 | #1,559 | 53.7 |
| 2010 | 146 | #1,217 | 76.1 |
| 2009 | 142 | #1,255 | 71.6 |
| 2008 | 146 | #1,209 | 71.6 |
| 2007 | 158 | #1,138 | 76.1 |
| 2006 | 52 | #2,392 | 25.3 |
| 2005 | 50 | #2,352 | 25.0 |
| 2004 | 45 | #2,478 | 22.7 |
| 2003 | 32 | #3,034 | 16.2 |
| 2002 | 33 | #2,871 | 17.0 |
| 2001 | 28 | #3,214 | 14.4 |
| 2000 | 28 | #3,136 | 14.3 |
| 1999 | 22 | #3,571 | 11.5 |
| 1998 | 16 | #4,386 | 8.4 |
| 1997 | 19 | #3,714 | 10.1 |
| 1996 | 8 | #7,046 | 4.2 |
| 1995 | 13 | #4,748 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 13 | #4,757 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 13 | #4,660 | 6.6 |
| 1992 | 11 | #5,189 | 5.5 |
| 1991 | 8 | #6,442 | 4.0 |
| 1990 | 6 | #8,010 | 2.9 |
| 1986 | 5 | #7,701 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Taven a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,765 Americans recorded as Taven, 3% are girls and 97% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Taven: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Taven, and how old are they?
1,740 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,765 Americans ever recorded as Taven. The median Taven alive today is 16 years old; half are between 12 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 1,468 people named Taven (97 women and girls, 1,371 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,573 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 74 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,160 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 509 |
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 8 names spelled alike, given to 16,052 babies since 1880, Taven is the fifth most given (11% of them). In 2025 it was given to 24 of their 167 babies (14%), the fourth 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 Taven
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 Taven and names like it
- Compare Taven and TavonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sTaven peaked in 2007.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Taven since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Taven.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Taven alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.