Traven
Traven was given to 6 boys in 2025, #11,857 among boys’ names; 813 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Traven by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Traven?
#11,857 among boys’ names, 2025
Traven fell from #7,986 in 2015 to #11,857 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 5.2 to 3.5 per million.
43 babies in 2007, the peak
Traven peaked in 2007, when 43 boys were given it, #2,803 among boys’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 14% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #11,857 | 3.5 |
| 2024 | 5 | #14,056 | 2.9 |
| 2023 | 7 | #10,703 | 4.1 |
| 2019 | 7 | #10,707 | 3.9 |
| 2018 | 5 | #13,916 | 2.8 |
| 2017 | 10 | #8,090 | 5.4 |
| 2016 | 6 | #12,038 | 3.2 |
| 2015 | 10 | #7,986 | 5.2 |
| 2014 | 15 | #5,968 | 7.8 |
| 2013 | 17 | #5,374 | 9.0 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 29 | #3,699 | 15.3 |
| 2011 | 32 | #3,421 | 16.8 |
| 2010 | 32 | #3,442 | 16.7 |
| 2009 | 35 | #3,263 | 17.6 |
| 2008 | 35 | #3,276 | 17.2 |
| 2007 | 43 | #2,803 | 20.7 |
| 2006 | 32 | #3,378 | 15.6 |
| 2005 | 34 | #3,079 | 17.0 |
| 2004 | 32 | #3,147 | 16.1 |
| 2003 | 29 | #3,263 | 14.7 |
| 2002 | 30 | #3,083 | 15.5 |
| 2001 | 33 | #2,850 | 17.0 |
| 2000 | 31 | #2,910 | 15.8 |
| 1999 | 24 | #3,361 | 12.5 |
| 1998 | 23 | #3,380 | 12.0 |
| 1997 | 25 | #3,054 | 13.3 |
| 1996 | 28 | #2,737 | 14.8 |
| 1995 | 36 | #2,245 | 18.9 |
| 1994 | 34 | #2,335 | 17.6 |
| 1993 | 27 | #2,683 | 13.8 |
| 1992 | 25 | #2,816 | 12.5 |
| 1991 | 20 | #3,208 | 9.9 |
| 1988 | 10 | #4,748 | 5.2 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,878 | 3.2 |
| 1986 | 7 | #5,883 | 3.8 |
| 1985 | 7 | #5,725 | 3.8 |
| 1984 | 5 | #7,252 | 2.8 |
| 1983 | 6 | #6,165 | 3.3 |
| 1980 | 5 | #7,226 | 2.8 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,794 | 3.0 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,955 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Traven a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Traven has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 41 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Traven: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Traven, and how old are they?
An estimated 794 Americans named Traven and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 17 and 30. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 685 people named Traven (22 women and girls, 663 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 782 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.
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 16,123 babies since 1880, Traven is the fifth most given (5.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 118 babies (5.1%), the seventh 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 Traven
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 Traven and names like it
- Compare Traven and TravonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sTraven peaked in 2007.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Traven since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Traven.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Traven alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.