Zavien
Zavien was given to 42 boys in 2025, #2,989 among boys’ names; 1,037 Americans have been recorded with it since 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,030 Americans named Zavien and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 6 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zavien by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zavien?
#2,989 among boys’ names, 2025
Zavien rose from #3,146 in 2015 to #2,989 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 19.3 to 24.6 per million.
61 babies in 2020, the peak
Zavien peaked in 2020, when 61 boys were given it, #2,262 among boys’ names. The 42 births of 2025 are 69% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 42 | #2,989 | 24.6 |
| 2024 | 48 | #2,749 | 27.9 |
| 2023 | 36 | #3,343 | 21.0 |
| 2022 | 48 | #2,749 | 27.5 |
| 2021 | 50 | #2,621 | 28.6 |
| 2020 | 61 | #2,262 | 35.3 |
| 2019 | 45 | #2,805 | 25.1 |
| 2018 | 44 | #2,792 | 24.2 |
| 2017 | 28 | #3,884 | 15.1 |
| 2016 | 44 | #2,780 | 23.2 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 37 | #3,146 | 19.3 |
| 2014 | 33 | #3,365 | 17.2 |
| 2013 | 33 | #3,335 | 17.4 |
| 2012 | 44 | #2,769 | 23.2 |
| 2011 | 42 | #2,850 | 22.1 |
| 2010 | 35 | #3,236 | 18.2 |
| 2009 | 52 | #2,484 | 26.2 |
| 2008 | 37 | #3,162 | 18.1 |
| 2007 | 34 | #3,310 | 16.4 |
| 2006 | 34 | #3,222 | 16.5 |
| 2005 | 34 | #3,086 | 17.0 |
| 2004 | 31 | #3,212 | 15.6 |
| 2003 | 23 | #3,830 | 11.6 |
| 2002 | 35 | #2,750 | 18.0 |
| 2001 | 25 | #3,506 | 12.9 |
| 2000 | 25 | #3,415 | 12.7 |
| 1999 | 19 | #3,980 | 9.9 |
| 1998 | 7 | #8,463 | 3.7 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,999 | 3.2 |
| 1992 | 5 | #9,803 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Zavien a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zavien has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zavien: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zavien, and how old are they?
1,030 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,037 Americans ever recorded as Zavien. The median Zavien alive today is 13 years old; half are between 6 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 613 people named Zavien (3 women and girls, 610 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 760 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% 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 | 11 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 470 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 545 |
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 Zavien born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 7 | #2,276 | 1.4× |
Where Zavien is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Zavien is most over-represented in Texas: since 1992 it was given 1.4 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 Zavien 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, Zavien is the fourth most given (9.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 42 of their 477 babies (8.8%), the fifth 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 Zavien
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 Zavien and names like it
- Compare Zavien and ZavionBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sZavien peaked in 2020.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zavien since 1910.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Zavien.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Zavien alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.