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English word name: given

Given has been given to 114 babies in the U.S. since 1925. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2018, with 17 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 80% boys, 20% girls all-time.

Babies named Given, 2022

1 in 564,000

Given over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Given over time

In 2022, Given went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19252022

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Given: meaning, origin, and history

English word name: given

English

What Given means

Given is documented as an English vocabulary word adopted as a personal name. Its immediate reference is the word given; the cited entry discusses the word history separately from its use as a given name.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Given is used in English (African).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈɡɪv.ən/ for Given.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 91 boys were recorded with the name Given between 1925 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 17 in 2018; its best national rank was #4,481 in 1925.

In the United States, 23 girls were recorded with the name Given between 2018 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2019; its best national rank was #14,033 in 2020.

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 Given?

Given had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 564,000
6 of 3,385,755 births
Among boys only
1 in 291,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
391,139 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Given 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 2022 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 391,139 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Given. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Givens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Given was born before 2018 — so the typical Given is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
42.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
87.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
86
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 42.9% of all recorded uses (39).

Is Given 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2018 (17)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
41.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,481
1925

Spellings of Given

Given is not the most common spelling — Aiden is, with 29.1% against Given's 0.01%.

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 Given is used

Across 1910–2025, Given was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 3,486,540 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Given has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Given around the world

Where Given 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
    2006–2010
    #3,865
    in 2010
  • France
    2013–2021
    #5,086
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1990–1990
    #484
    in 1990

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

Given by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#4,481
1925
Peak year
2018
17 that year
First recorded
1925
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
91
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#14,033
2020
Peak year
2019
6 that year
First recorded
2018
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
23
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Given

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

ZivenYuvenRevenRuvenGiveonZevenGivanniKovenSyvenLevenGivonCevenJovenCavenRivenDayvenKaivenEavenKravenJevenNavenSeyvenNevenAiven

Sibling names for Given

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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