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Kevan

Boys' name

Dear birth/person, through Kevin

Kevan has been given to 3,531 babies in the U.S. since 1945. 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 1986, with 88 recorded.

Babies named Kevan, 2024

1 in 334,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kevan: meaning, origin, and history

Dear birth/person, through Kevin

Irish

What Kevan means

Kevan belongs to the name family reached through Kevan → Kevin. Its meaning is “dear birth/person”.

Origin, language, and formation

Kevan is used in English. Its origins include Irish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Kevin.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,479 boys were recorded with the name Kevan between 1945 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 88 in 1986; its best national rank was #801 in 1956.

In the United States, 52 girls were recorded with the name Kevan between 1952 and 1985. Its highest annual count was 13 in 1953; its best national rank was #3,194 in 1953.

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 Kevan?

Kevan 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 Kevan 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 Kevan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kevans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kevan was born before 1979 — so the typical Kevan is around 46 today.

Median birth year
1979
About 46 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
20.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
13.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,431
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1980s — 20.5% of all recorded uses (714).

Is Kevan 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
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1986 (88)
Years since peak
39
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#801
1956

Spellings of Kevan

Kevan is not the most common spelling — Kevin is, with 39.6% against Kevan's 0.12%.

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 Kevan is used

Across 1910–2025, Kevan was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 121,715 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 50,000
  2. 2Utah1 in 50,000
  3. 3Florida1 in 100,000
  4. 4Illinois1 in 100,000
  5. 5New York1 in 100,000
  6. 6Ohio1 in 100,000
  7. 7Texas1 in 100,000
  8. 8Colorado1 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. Kevan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kevan around the world

Where Kevan 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
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1974–1995
    #306
    in 1995
  • Ireland
    1985–2005
    #518
    in 2005
  • France
    1988–2025
    #1,937
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2015
    #2,735
    in 2015
  • South Australia
    1944–2010
    #754
    in 2010

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

Notable people named Kevan

People whose public names include Kevan, 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.

Kevan in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Kevan. Linked forms have their own page here.

Kevin

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Kevan 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
#801
1956
Peak year
1986
88 that year
First recorded
1945
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
3,479
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,194
1953
Peak year
1953
13 that year
First recorded
1952
Last recorded
1985
All-time count
52
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kevan

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

KevonKevynKevenJavanKevionCavanSylvanStevanJovanNevanRevanYuvanGavanDevanKavanLevanKevontePavanAvanTrevanVivanJevanSevanDonavan

Names with a curve like Kevan

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

TeranceRenardMichaleGreggoryRichardoBrienReinaldoDonellRojelioPhilippeBrittBrion

Sibling names for Kevan

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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