Tavish — #5516 US boys' name
759 babies named Tavish in U.S. Social Security records since 1982, with the highest year being 1993. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 61% of names given to boys today.
28% of everyone ever named Tavish was born in this single decade.
35 babies were named Tavish in 1993 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Tavish
The Social Security Administration has registered 759 babies named Tavish between 1982 and 2024, spanning 43 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Tavish currently holds the #5516 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1993, when 35 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Tavish performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 210 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Tavish shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 11 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Tennessee and Washington. In total, SSA state-level files list Tavish in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Tavish in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 759 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Tavish at a glance
Outside the top 1,000Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Tavish popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1982
- Peak year (1993)
- 35
- Annual births at peak — across 43 years of records
Currently ranks #5516 among boys.
759 total births across 43 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1993 with 35 births in a single year.
Tavish popularity over time — girls
5 total births recorded since 1970 (Tavish as girls' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The girls' variant of Tavish accounts for 1% of total recorded use across both genders.
Tavish by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 210 births that decade — 28% of Tavish's all-time total
Tavish decade highlights
- Peak decade 210 births
- Runner-up 184 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Tavish's strongest decade
210 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 28% of all-time use.
Tavish by state
Where Tavish concentrates geographically — total births since 1982
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 11 | 1.4% |
| #2 | Tennessee | | 5 | 0.7% |
| #3 | Washington | | 5 | 0.7% |
11 of 759 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 3 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 1.4% of nationwide
- Tennessee 0.7% of nationwide
- Washington 0.7% of nationwide
Recorded in 3 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 1.4% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1982–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.