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Donavon

#5,671 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Donavon has been given to 5,349 babies in the U.S. since 1915. In 2025 it ranked #5,671 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2000, with 156 recorded.

Babies named Donavon, 2025

1 in 207,000

Donavon over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Donavon: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Donavon means

Donavon is a given name.

The naming story behind Donavon

Wikidata records Donavon as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q98651499, 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, 5,349 boys were recorded with the name Donavon between 1915 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 156 in 2000; its best national rank was #913 in 1988.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,514 in 2020 to #5,671 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,172 in 2015 to #5,671 in 2025.

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 Donavon?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 207,000
16 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 107,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,671
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
143,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Donavon 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 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Donavon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Donavons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Donavon was born before 1992 — so the typical Donavon is around 33 today.

Median birth year
1992
About 33 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
23.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
30.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
4,587
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Choose a decade

2000s — 23.8% of all recorded uses (1,271).

Is Donavon 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
+2,232
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−157
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,499
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.44×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
10.3%
Peak was 2000 (156)
Years since peak
25
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#913
1988

Spellings of Donavon

Donavon is not the most common spelling — Donovan is, with 62.6% against Donavon's 5.4%.

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 Donavon is used

Across 1910–2025, Donavon was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 16,667 boys, against 1 in 71,842 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 16,667
  2. 2Iowa1 in 33,333
  3. 3Minnesota1 in 33,333
  4. 4North Dakota1 in 33,333
  5. 5California1 in 50,000
  6. 6Colorado1 in 50,000
  7. 7Indiana1 in 50,000
  8. 8Kentucky1 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. Donavon has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Donavon around the world

Where Donavon 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
    2008–2014
    #4,632
    in 2014
  • Canada
    1991–2006
    #2,447
    in 2006
  • South Australia
    1944–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Donavon

People whose public names include Donavon, 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.

Donavon by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,671
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 157
Best rank ever
#913
1988
Peak year
2000
156 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,349
Count in 2025
16

Names similar to Donavon

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

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Names with a curve like Donavon

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

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Sibling names for Donavon

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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