Cavin
#9,057 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Cavin has been given to 1,371 babies in the U.S. since 1954. In 2025 it ranked #9,057 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1981, with 56 recorded.
Babies named Cavin, 2025
1 in 414,000
Cavin 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Cavin?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 414,000
- 8 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 213,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #9,057
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 287,238 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Cavin 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cavin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Cavins were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Cavin was born before 1997 — so the typical Cavin is around 28 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 24.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 46.0%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,371
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 24.4% of all recorded uses (335).
Is Cavin 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
- +2,120
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −3,032
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −4,744
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.35×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 14.3%
- Peak was 1981 (56)
- Years since peak
- 44
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 19.6% average annual change
Spellings of Cavin
Cavin is not the most common spelling — David is, with 55.9% against Cavin's 0.02%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Cavin is used
Across 1910–2025, Cavin was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 682,175 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Georgia1 in —
- 3Louisiana1 in —
- 4Michigan1 in —
- 5South Carolina1 in —
- 6Texas1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Cavin has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Cavin around the world
Where Cavin ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- Canada1999–2017#2,944in 2017
- South Australia1971–2008#726in 2008
Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Cavin by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Cavin
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Cavin
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.