Donaven
#9,955 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Donaven has been given to 1,186 babies in the U.S. since 1973. In 2025 it ranked #9,955 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2002, with 66 recorded.
Babies named Donaven, 2025
1 in 474,000
Donaven 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Donaven?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 474,000
- 7 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 244,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #9,955
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 328,272 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Donaven 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Donaven. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Donavens were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Donaven was born before 2003 — so the typical Donaven is around 22 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 47.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 64.8%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,186
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 47.5% of all recorded uses (563).
Is Donaven 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
- +211
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,717
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −4,387
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.44×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 10.6%
- Peak was 2002 (66)
- Years since peak
- 23
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 28.3% average annual change
Spellings of Donaven
Donaven is not the most common spelling — Donovan is, with 66.4% against Donaven's 1.3%.
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 Donaven is used
Across 1910–2025, Donaven was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 260,760 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in 100,000
- 2Texas1 in 100,000
- 3Florida1 in —
- 4Michigan1 in —
- 5North Carolina1 in —
- 6New York1 in —
- 7Ohio1 in —
- 8Tennessee1 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. Donaven has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Donaven around the world
Where Donaven 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.
- Canada1997–2008#2,611in 2008
Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Donaven by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Donaven
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Donaven
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.