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Kavin

#3,996 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Kavin has been given to 2,934 babies in the U.S. since 1950. In 2025 it ranked #3,996 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2010, with 95 recorded.

Babies named Kavin, 2025

1 in 123,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kavin: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kavin means

Kavin is a given name.

The naming story behind Kavin

Wikidata records Kavin as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q1737257, 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, 2,934 boys were recorded with the name Kavin between 1950 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 95 in 2010; its best national rank was #1,177 in 1965.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,454 in 2020 to #3,996 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,991 in 2015 to #3,996 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 Kavin?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 123,000
27 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 63,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,996
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
85,108 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kavin 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 85,108 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kavin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kavins were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kavin was born before 2002 — so the typical Kavin is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
26.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
52.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,934
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 26.0% of all recorded uses (762).

Is Kavin 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
+379
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−542
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,005
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.37×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
28.4%
Peak was 2010 (95)
Years since peak
15
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,177
1965

Spellings of Kavin

Kavin is not the most common spelling — David is, with 55.4% against Kavin's 0.04%.

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 Kavin is used

Across 2016–2025, Kavin was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 52,757 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in 100,000).

13 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 33,333
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 33,333
  3. 3Minnesota1 in 50,000
  4. 4Texas1 in 50,000
  5. 5Florida1 in 100,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in 100,000
  7. 7New York1 in 100,000
  8. 8Ohio1 in 100,000

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.

Kavin around the world

Where Kavin 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
    1997–2025
    #2,664
    in 2025
  • France
    2001–2025
    #2,519
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1992–2024
    #1,964
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Kavin

People whose public names include Kavin, 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.

Kavin by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,996
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 542
Best rank ever
#1,177
1965
Peak year
2010
95 that year
First recorded
1950
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,934
Count in 2025
27

Names similar to Kavin

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

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Names with a curve like Kavin

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

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Sibling names for Kavin

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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