Tavian
Tavian was given to 27 boys in 2025, #4,032 among boys’ names; 2,089 Americans have been recorded with it since 1985 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,050 Americans named Tavian and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 15 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tavian by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tavian?
#4,032 among boys’ names, 2025
Tavian fell from #3,673 in 2015 to #4,032 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 15.7 to 15.8 per million.
169 babies in 1998, the peak
Tavian peaked in 1998, when 169 boys were given it, #861 among boys’ names. The 27 births of 2025 are 16% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27 | #4,032 | 15.8 |
| 2024 | 18 | #5,412 | 10.4 |
| 2023 | 23 | #4,592 | 13.4 |
| 2022 | 16 | #5,838 | 9.2 |
| 2021 | 26 | #4,106 | 14.9 |
| 2020 | 27 | #3,901 | 15.6 |
| 2019 | 38 | #3,137 | 21.2 |
| 2018 | 42 | #2,884 | 23.1 |
| 2017 | 35 | #3,304 | 18.9 |
| 2016 | 27 | #3,973 | 14.2 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 30 | #3,673 | 15.7 |
| 2014 | 35 | #3,215 | 18.2 |
| 2013 | 46 | #2,618 | 24.3 |
| 2012 | 78 | #1,876 | 41.1 |
| 2011 | 60 | #2,198 | 31.6 |
| 2010 | 92 | #1,685 | 47.9 |
| 2009 | 108 | #1,537 | 54.4 |
| 2008 | 96 | #1,630 | 47.1 |
| 2007 | 114 | #1,431 | 54.9 |
| 2006 | 85 | #1,681 | 41.4 |
| 2005 | 92 | #1,542 | 46.1 |
| 2004 | 74 | #1,724 | 37.3 |
| 2003 | 83 | #1,542 | 42.0 |
| 2002 | 75 | #1,615 | 38.6 |
| 2001 | 101 | #1,302 | 52.0 |
| 2000 | 147 | #1,003 | 74.8 |
| 1999 | 133 | #1,045 | 69.3 |
| 1998 | 169 | #861 | 88.4 |
| 1997 | 63 | #1,624 | 33.4 |
| 1996 | 25 | #3,005 | 13.2 |
| 1995 | 15 | #4,244 | 7.9 |
| 1994 | 22 | #3,196 | 11.4 |
| 1993 | 14 | #4,416 | 7.1 |
| 1992 | 17 | #3,729 | 8.5 |
| 1991 | 8 | #6,443 | 4.0 |
| 1990 | 9 | #5,756 | 4.4 |
| 1987 | 8 | #5,396 | 4.3 |
| 1986 | 5 | #7,702 | 2.7 |
| 1985 | 6 | #6,443 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Tavian a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tavian has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 39 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tavian: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tavian, and how old are they?
2,050 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,089 Americans ever recorded as Tavian. The median Tavian alive today is 21 years old; half are between 15 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 1,698 people named Tavian (33 women and girls, 1,665 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,935 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 124 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,540 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 387 |
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 Tavian born?
The states with the most babies named Tavian are Texas, Florida and California, with 38% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 113 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Florida | 68 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| California | 62 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Iowa | 62 | not ranked | 2.8× |
| New York | 39 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 34 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Georgia | 28 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Washington | 28 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 21 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| North Carolina | 19 | not ranked | 0.3× |
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 Tavian 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 15,684 babies since 1880, Tavian is the third most given (13% of them). In 2025 it was given to 27 of their 168 babies (16%), again the third 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 Tavian
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 Tavian and names like it
- Compare Tavian and TavonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sTavian peaked in 1998.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tavian since 1910.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Tavian.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Tavian alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.