Zavian
Zavian was given to 169 boys in 2025, #1,202 among boys’ names; 2,303 Americans have been recorded with it since 1984 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,280 Americans named Zavian and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zavian by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zavian?
#1,202 among boys’ names, 2025
Zavian rose from #2,017 in 2015 to #1,202 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 37.6 to 98.9 per million.
174 babies in 2020, the peak
Zavian peaked in 2020, when 174 boys were given it, #1,129 among boys’ names. The 169 births of 2025 are 97% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 169 | #1,202 | 0.10 |
| 2024 | 123 | #1,480 | 0.07 |
| 2023 | 130 | #1,415 | 0.08 |
| 2022 | 104 | #1,664 | 0.06 |
| 2021 | 145 | #1,305 | 0.08 |
| 2020 | 174 | #1,129 | 0.10 |
| 2019 | 139 | #1,321 | 0.08 |
| 2018 | 153 | #1,223 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 97 | #1,643 | 0.05 |
| 2016 | 81 | #1,862 | 0.04 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 72 | #2,017 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 65 | #2,136 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 75 | #1,901 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 82 | #1,815 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 58 | #2,259 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 58 | #2,260 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 50 | #2,557 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 62 | #2,184 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 62 | #2,184 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 52 | #2,396 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 44 | #2,562 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 40 | #2,692 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 39 | #2,615 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 51 | #2,120 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 41 | #2,424 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 31 | #2,914 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 22 | #3,583 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 16 | #4,408 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 8 | #7,268 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 8 | #7,124 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 6 | #8,849 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 7 | #7,757 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 9 | #6,217 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 12 | #4,861 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 12 | #4,752 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 6 | #6,306 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Zavian a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zavian has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 36 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zavian: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zavian, and how old are they?
2,280 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,303 Americans ever recorded as Zavian. The median Zavian alive today is 9 years old; half are between 5 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 1,196 people named Zavian (11 women and girls, 1,185 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,488 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% 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 | 58 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 706 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,520 |
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 Zavian born?
The states with the most babies named Zavian are Texas, California and New York, with 52% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 24 | #1,009 | 1.5× |
| California | 21 | #1,038 | 0.5× |
| New York | 19 | #767 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 16 | #911 | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 9 | #986 | 0.6× |
| Arizona | 7 | #841 | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,227 | 0.6× |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #895 | 1.1× |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,250 | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,466 | 0.1× |
Where Zavian is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Zavian is most over-represented in Texas: since 1984 it was given 1.5 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 Zavian 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 10,557 babies since 1880, Zavian is the second most given (22% of them). In 2025 it was given to 169 of their 477 babies (35%), the 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 Zavian
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 Zavian and names like it
- Compare Zavian and ZavionBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sZavian peaked in 2020.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zavian since 1910.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Zavian.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Zavian alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.