Tavis
Tavis was given to 9 boys in 2025, #8,838 among boys’ names; 2,216 Americans have been recorded with it since 1963 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,100 Americans named Tavis and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 34 years old and half are between 24 and 47.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tavis by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tavis?
#8,838 among boys’ names, 2025
Tavis fell from #6,277 in 2015 to #8,838 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 7.3 to 5.3 per million.
79 babies in 1977, the peak
Tavis peaked in 1977, when 79 babies were given it (73 boys, #1,011 among boys’ names). The 9 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,838 | 5.3 |
| 2024 | 6 | #12,188 | 3.5 |
| 2023 | 9 | #8,839 | 5.3 |
| 2022 | 5 | #14,098 | 2.9 |
| 2021 | 9 | #8,754 | 5.1 |
| 2020 | 11 | #7,440 | 6.4 |
| 2019 | 10 | #8,135 | 5.6 |
| 2018 | 15 | #6,004 | 8.3 |
| 2017 | 10 | #8,075 | 5.4 |
| 2016 | 8 | #9,569 | 4.2 |
Every recorded year (63)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 14 | #6,277 | 7.3 |
| 2014 | 11 | #7,495 | 5.7 |
| 2013 | 24 | #4,162 | 12.7 |
| 2012 | 32 | #3,436 | 16.9 |
| 2011 | 20 | #4,802 | 10.5 |
| 2010 | 23 | #4,349 | 12.0 |
| 2009 | 28 | #3,816 | 14.1 |
| 2008 | 29 | #3,728 | 14.2 |
| 2007 | 48 | #2,596 | 23.1 |
| 2006 | 50 | #2,472 | 24.3 |
| 2005 | 42 | #2,642 | 21.0 |
| 2004 | 49 | #2,333 | 24.7 |
| 2003 | 37 | #2,717 | 18.7 |
| 2002 | 39 | #2,548 | 20.1 |
| 2001 | 49 | #2,140 | 25.2 |
| 2000 | 63 | #1,761 | 32.1 |
| 1999 | 79 | #1,466 | 41.1 |
| 1998 | 76 | #1,469 | 39.8 |
| 1997 | 58 | #1,701 | 30.8 |
| 1996 | 50 | #1,836 | 26.4 |
| 1995 | 43 | #1,981 | 22.6 |
| 1994 | 51 | #1,745 | 26.4 |
| 1993 | 60 | #1,533 | 30.6 |
| 1992 | 49 | #1,742 | 24.5 |
| 1991 | 50 | #1,667 | 24.7 |
| 1990 | 35 | #2,120 | 17.0 |
| 1989 | 28 | #2,400 | 14.0 |
| 1988 | 41 | #1,725 | 21.4 |
| 1987 | 34 | #1,889 | 18.2 |
| 1986 | 30 | #2,001 | 16.3 |
| 1985 | 41 | #1,591 | 22.2 |
| 1984 | 37 | #1,625 | 20.5 |
| 1983 | 57 | #1,219 | 31.8 |
| 1982 | 46 | #1,408 | 25.4 |
| 1981 | 51 | #1,308 | 28.5 |
| 1980 | 54 | #1,270 | 30.3 |
| 1979 | 66 | #1,107 | 38.3 |
| 1978 | 62 | #1,119 | 37.8 |
| 1977 | 73 | #1,011 | 44.4 |
| 1976 | 65 | #1,039 | 41.4 |
| 1975 | 54 | #1,159 | 34.6 |
| 1974 | 44 | #1,287 | 28.0 |
| 1973 | 47 | #1,220 | 30.2 |
| 1972 | 34 | #1,470 | 21.0 |
| 1971 | 36 | #1,437 | 20.4 |
| 1970 | 21 | #1,981 | 11.3 |
| 1969 | 23 | #1,761 | 12.9 |
| 1968 | 16 | #2,101 | 9.2 |
| 1967 | 15 | #2,127 | 8.6 |
| 1966 | 6 | #3,909 | 3.4 |
| 1965 | 11 | #2,599 | 5.9 |
| 1964 | 9 | #3,028 | 4.5 |
| 1963 | 8 | #3,293 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Tavis a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tavis has been given almost only to boys: 6 girls in 63 years of records.
Girls and boys named Tavis: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tavis, and how old are they?
2,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 2,216 Americans ever recorded as Tavis. The median Tavis alive today is 34 years old; half are between 24 and 47.
The 2020 Census counted 1,893 people named Tavis (53 women and girls, 1,840 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,086 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 14 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 569 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 668 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 709 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 140 |
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 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,785 babies since 1880, Tavis is the most given (80% of them).
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 Tavis
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 Tavis and names like it
- Compare Tavis and TaviusBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sTavis peaked in 1977.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tavis since 1910.
- The top names of 1977The year the most babies were named Tavis.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Tavis alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.