Donavin
#9,126 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Donavin has been given to 2,343 babies in the U.S. since 1964. In 2025 it ranked #9,126 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2005, with 148 recorded.
Babies named Donavin, 2025
1 in 414,000
Donavin 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Donavin?
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
- #9,126
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 287,238 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Donavin 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 Donavin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Donavins were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Donavin was born before 2004 — so the typical Donavin is around 21 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 50.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 68.8%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,343
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (1,172).
Is Donavin 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −5,280
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −5,955
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.22×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 5.4%
- Peak was 2005 (148)
- Years since peak
- 20
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 21.3% average annual change
Spellings of Donavin
Donavin is not the most common spelling — Donovan is, with 65.9% against Donavin's 2.5%.
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 Donavin is used
Across 1910–2025, Donavin was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 148,581 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Michigan1 in 50,000
- 2California1 in 100,000
- 3Florida1 in 100,000
- 4Indiana1 in 100,000
- 5New York1 in 100,000
- 6Ohio1 in 100,000
- 7Texas1 in 100,000
- 8Washington1 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. Donavin has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Donavin around the world
Where Donavin 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.
- Canada1992–2012#2,715in 2012
Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Donavin by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Donavin
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Donavin
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Donavin, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Donavin
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.