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Tavian

#4,032 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Tavian has been given to 2,089 babies in the U.S. since 1985. In 2025 it ranked #4,032 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1998, with 169 recorded.

Babies named Tavian, 2025

1 in 123,000

Tavian over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tavian: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tavian means

Tavian is a given name.

The naming story behind Tavian

Wikidata records Tavian as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q136941454, 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, 2,089 boys were recorded with the name Tavian between 1985 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 169 in 1998; its best national rank was #861 in 1998.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,901 in 2020 to #4,032 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,673 in 2015 to #4,032 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 Tavian?

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
#4,032
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
85,108 kids
Even odds of a second one

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

When Tavians were born

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

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
46.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
69.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,089
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 46.7% of all recorded uses (975).

Is Tavian 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
+1,380
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−131
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−359
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.90×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
16.0%
Peak was 1998 (169)
Years since peak
27
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#861
1998

Spellings of Tavian

Tavian is not the most common spelling — Gavin is, with 36.9% against Tavian's 0.41%.

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 Tavian is used

Across 1910–2025, Tavian was most concentrated in Iowa — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 220,892 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Iowa1 in 33,333
  2. 2Colorado1 in 100,000
  3. 3Florida1 in 100,000
  4. 4Georgia1 in 100,000
  5. 5Maryland1 in 100,000
  6. 6Texas1 in 100,000
  7. 7Utah1 in 100,000
  8. 8Washington1 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. Tavian has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Tavian around the world

Where Tavian 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
    1998–2021
    #4,789
    in 2021
  • Canada
    2001–2022
    #2,959
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    2011–2011
    #784
    in 2011

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

Tavian by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,032
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 131
Best rank ever
#861
1998
Peak year
1998
169 that year
First recorded
1985
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,089
Count in 2025
27

Names similar to Tavian

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

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Names with a curve like Tavian

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

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Sibling names for Tavian

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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