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Kavan

#10,193 in 2025Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Kavan has been given to 885 babies in the U.S. since 1968. In 2025 it ranked #10,193 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2005, with 41 recorded.

Babies named Kavan, 2025

1 in 474,000

Kavan over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kavan: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kavan means

Kavan is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Kavan is used in Breton.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 885 boys were recorded with the name Kavan between 1968 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 41 in 2005; its best national rank was #2,648 in 1995.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,572 in 2020 to #10,193 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,805 in 2015 to #10,193 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Kavan?

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
#10,193
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kavan 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kavan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kavans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kavan was born before 2005 — so the typical Kavan is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
36.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
65.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
885
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 36.5% of all recorded uses (323).

Is Kavan 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
−4,159
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−4,621
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−5,388
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.35×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
17.1%
Peak was 2005 (41)
Years since peak
20
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,648
1995

Spellings of Kavan

Kavan is not the most common spelling — Kevin is, with 43.8% against Kavan's 0.03%.

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 Kavan is used

Across 1910–2025, Kavan was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 568,447 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 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. Kavan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kavan around the world

Where Kavan 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
    1996–2025
    #2,664
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1992–2024
    #2,328
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Kavan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#10,193
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 4,621
Best rank ever
#2,648
1995
Peak year
2005
41 that year
First recorded
1968
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
885
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Kavan

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

KavenKavehKaviKavonKavinKavionGavanKavirYuvanRevanNevanKaveonKavishLevanPavanKavariCavanVivanJevanTrevanAvanSevanLivanJeevan

Sibling names for Kavan

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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