Kavian

Boys' name

Meaning not yet documented

Kavian has been given to 165 babies in the U.S. since 1999. 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 2009, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Kavian, 2024

1 in 334,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Kavian?

Kavian had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 334,000
10 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 172,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
231,706 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kavian 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 2024 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 231,706 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kavian. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kavians were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kavian was born before 2014 — so the typical Kavian is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
47.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
97.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
165
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 47.9% of all recorded uses (79).

Is Kavian 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2009 (16)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
41.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,693
2009

Spellings of Kavian

Kavian is not the most common spelling — Kevin is, with 68.7% against Kavian'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.

Kavian around the world

Where Kavian 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
    2020–2020
    #4,608
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    2006–2006
    #657
    in 2006

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

Kavian 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
#5,693
2009
Peak year
2009
16 that year
First recorded
1999
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
165
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kavian

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

Sibling names for Kavian

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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