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Gaven

#11,118 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Gaven has been given to 3,839 babies in the U.S. since 1972. In 2025 it ranked #11,118 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2003, with 282 recorded.

Babies named Gaven, 2025

1 in 553,000

Gaven over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gaven: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Gaven means

Gaven is a given name.

The naming story behind Gaven

Wikidata records Gaven as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q21079765, 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, 3,839 boys were recorded with the name Gaven between 1972 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 282 in 2003; its best national rank was #687 in 2003.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,183 in 2020 to #11,118 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,368 in 2015 to #11,118 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 Gaven?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#11,118
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gaven 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gaven. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gavens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gaven was born before 2004 — so the typical Gaven is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
58.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
75.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,839
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 58.6% of all recorded uses (2,251).

Is Gaven 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
−2,569
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−6,935
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−8,750
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.11×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
2.1%
Peak was 2003 (282)
Years since peak
22
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#687
2003

Spellings of Gaven

Gaven is not the most common spelling — Gavin is, with 17.0% against Gaven's 0.35%.

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 Gaven is used

Across 1910–2025, Gaven was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 67,808 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 33,333
  2. 2Ohio1 in 33,333
  3. 3Utah1 in 33,333
  4. 4Arkansas1 in 50,000
  5. 5Florida1 in 50,000
  6. 6Georgia1 in 50,000
  7. 7Indiana1 in 50,000
  8. 8Michigan1 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. Gaven has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Gaven around the world

Where Gaven 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.

  • Ireland
    1978–1978
    #326
    in 1978
  • Canada
    1997–2016
    #2,748
    in 2016
  • South Australia
    1947–1975
    #460
    in 1975

Popularity data from Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Gaven

People whose public names include Gaven, 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.

Gaven by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#11,118
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 6,935
Best rank ever
#687
2003
Peak year
2003
282 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,839
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Gaven

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

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Names with a curve like Gaven

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

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Sibling names for Gaven

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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