Tavon
Tavon was given to 19 boys in 2025, #5,176 among boys’ names; 4,147 Americans have been recorded with it since 1972 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,010 Americans named Tavon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 20 and 35.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tavon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Tavon mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Tavon is “a male given name.”
From ta- + -von.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Tavon?
#5,176 among boys’ names, 2025
Tavon fell from #2,427 in 2015 to #5,176 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 27.7 to 11.1 per million.
188 babies in 1996, the peak
Tavon peaked in 1996, when 188 boys were given it, #777 among boys’ names. The 19 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #5,176 | 11.1 |
| 2024 | 32 | #3,593 | 18.6 |
| 2023 | 23 | #4,593 | 13.4 |
| 2022 | 32 | #3,603 | 18.3 |
| 2021 | 38 | #3,170 | 21.7 |
| 2020 | 34 | #3,336 | 19.7 |
| 2019 | 35 | #3,334 | 19.5 |
| 2018 | 39 | #3,045 | 21.5 |
| 2017 | 35 | #3,305 | 18.9 |
| 2016 | 36 | #3,216 | 19.0 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 53 | #2,427 | 27.7 |
| 2014 | 45 | #2,700 | 23.4 |
| 2013 | 51 | #2,454 | 27.0 |
| 2012 | 55 | #2,354 | 29.0 |
| 2011 | 73 | #1,921 | 38.4 |
| 2010 | 77 | #1,878 | 40.1 |
| 2009 | 61 | #2,199 | 30.8 |
| 2008 | 92 | #1,675 | 45.1 |
| 2007 | 98 | #1,606 | 47.2 |
| 2006 | 119 | #1,365 | 57.9 |
| 2005 | 130 | #1,222 | 65.1 |
| 2004 | 118 | #1,277 | 59.4 |
| 2003 | 118 | #1,231 | 59.7 |
| 2002 | 96 | #1,378 | 49.4 |
| 2001 | 109 | #1,227 | 56.1 |
| 2000 | 128 | #1,103 | 65.2 |
| 1999 | 136 | #1,023 | 70.8 |
| 1998 | 132 | #1,026 | 69.1 |
| 1997 | 121 | #1,055 | 64.2 |
| 1996 | 188 | #777 | 99.2 |
| 1995 | 186 | #785 | 97.7 |
| 1994 | 140 | #929 | 72.5 |
| 1993 | 130 | #942 | 66.3 |
| 1992 | 132 | #927 | 66.1 |
| 1991 | 144 | #877 | 71.3 |
| 1990 | 115 | #983 | 56.0 |
| 1989 | 86 | #1,145 | 43.0 |
| 1988 | 63 | #1,302 | 32.9 |
| 1987 | 73 | #1,131 | 39.1 |
| 1986 | 73 | #1,099 | 39.6 |
| 1985 | 71 | #1,107 | 38.4 |
| 1984 | 85 | #966 | 47.1 |
| 1983 | 65 | #1,118 | 36.3 |
| 1982 | 58 | #1,226 | 32.0 |
| 1981 | 73 | #1,071 | 40.8 |
| 1980 | 57 | #1,225 | 32.0 |
| 1979 | 52 | #1,287 | 30.2 |
| 1978 | 45 | #1,390 | 27.4 |
| 1977 | 30 | #1,773 | 18.3 |
| 1976 | 28 | #1,819 | 17.8 |
| 1975 | 19 | #2,352 | 12.2 |
| 1974 | 6 | #5,167 | 3.8 |
| 1973 | 9 | #3,664 | 5.8 |
| 1972 | 6 | #4,937 | 3.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Tavon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 4,147 Americans recorded as Tavon, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 19 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Tavon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tavon, and how old are they?
4,010 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 4,147 Americans ever recorded as Tavon. The median Tavon alive today is 29 years old; half are between 20 and 35.
The 2020 Census counted 2,883 people named Tavon (73 women and girls, 2,810 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,883 born in the U.S. The Census count is 26% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 248 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,650 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,650 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 468 |
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 Tavon born?
The states with the most babies named Tavon are Maryland, New York and Virginia, with 66% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Maryland and Virginia are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maryland | 1,305 | not ranked | 17.8× |
| New York | 195 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Virginia | 183 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| District of Columbia | 175 | not ranked | 9.7× |
| Ohio | 94 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 90 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| North Carolina | 89 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 84 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 62 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| South Carolina | 55 | not ranked | 1.0× |
Where Tavon is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tavon is most over-represented in Maryland: since 1972 it was given 17.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Tavon 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 16,685 babies since 1880, Tavon is the most given (25% of them). In 2025 it was given to 19 of their 196 babies (9.7%), the sixth 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 Tavon
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 Tavon and names like it
- Compare Tavon and TavionBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sTavon peaked in 1996.
- Maryland’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tavon since 1910.
- The top names of 1996The year the most babies were named Tavon.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Tavon alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.