Craven
#12,419 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Craven has been given to 371 babies in the U.S. since 1916. In 2025 it ranked #12,419 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1956, with 12 recorded.
Babies named Craven, 2025
1 in 663,000
Craven 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Craven?
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
- #12,419
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,581 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Craven 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 Craven. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Cravens were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Craven was born before 1953 — so the typical Craven is around 72 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 18.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 24.3%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 202
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 18.9% of all recorded uses (70).
Is Craven 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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- Not ranked then
- 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
- 41.7%
- Peak was 1956 (12)
- Years since peak
- 69
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 36.2% average annual change
Spellings of Craven
Craven is not the most common spelling — Caden is, with 39.4% against Craven's 0.20%.
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 Craven is used
Across 1910–2025, Craven was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 44,505 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1North Carolina1 in 50,000
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. Craven has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Craven by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Craven
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Craven
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.