Cavanaugh
#12,367 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Cavanaugh has been given to 59 babies in the U.S. since 2002. In 2025 it ranked #12,367 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 8 recorded.
Babies named Cavanaugh, 2025
1 in 663,000
Cavanaugh over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Cavanaugh?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 342,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #12,367
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,581 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Cavanaugh sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cavanaugh. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Cavanaughs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Cavanaugh was born before 2014 — so the typical Cavanaugh is around 11 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 47.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 59
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 47.5% of all recorded uses (28).
Is Cavanaugh rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 62.5%
- Peak was 2006 (8)
- Years since peak
- 19
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 16.7% average annual change
Cavanaugh by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Cavanaugh
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Cavanaugh
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.