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Donavan

#2,426 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Donavan has been given to 8,305 babies in the U.S. since 1919. In 2025 it ranked #2,426 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2002, with 270 recorded.

Babies named Donavan, 2025

1 in 59,200

Donavan over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
010020030018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Donavan: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Donavan means

Donavan is a given name.

The naming story behind Donavan

Wikidata records Donavan as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q107986242, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8,300 boys were recorded with the name Donavan between 1919 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 270 in 2002; its best national rank was #657 in 1999.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,473 in 2020 to #2,426 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,658 in 2015 to #2,426 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Donavan between 1997 and 1997. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1997; its best national rank was #14,367 in 1997.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Donavan?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 59,200
56 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 30,500
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,426
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
41,035 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Donavan sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 41,035 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Donavan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Donavans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Donavan was born before 1998 — so the typical Donavan is around 27 today.

Median birth year
1998
About 27 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
29.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
41.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
8,003
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 29.3% of all recorded uses (2,430).

Is Donavan 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
+804
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+47
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−768
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.59×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
20.7%
Peak was 2002 (270)
Years since peak
23
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#657
1999

Spellings of Donavan

Donavan is not the most common spelling — Donovan is, with 69.4% against Donavan's 9.3%.

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 Donavan is used

Across 2016–2025, Donavan was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 47,316 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).

13 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 33,333
  2. 2Texas1 in 33,333
  3. 3Michigan1 in 50,000
  4. 4Ohio1 in 50,000
  5. 5Florida1 in 100,000
  6. 6Georgia1 in 100,000
  7. 7New York1 in 100,000
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in 100,000

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.

Donavan around the world

Where Donavan 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.

  • England & Wales
    1997–2008
    #4,432
    in 2008
  • France
    1986–2020
    #5,274
    in 2020
  • Canada
    1991–2022
    #2,602
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1975–1980
    #422
    in 1980

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Donavan

People whose public names include Donavan, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Donavan by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,426
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 47
Best rank ever
#657
1999
Peak year
2002
270 that year
First recorded
1919
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
8,300
Count in 2025
56

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#14,367
1997
Peak year
1997
5 that year
First recorded
1997
Last recorded
1997
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Donavan

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Donavan

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Donavan, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

EstevanAlexandroEfrenGermanOctavioDeshaunTyreeOsvaldoNigelDashawnDandreNathanial

Sibling names for Donavan

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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