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Tavis

#8,838 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Tavis has been given to 2,216 babies in the U.S. since 1963. In 2025 it ranked #8,838 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1999, with 79 recorded.

Babies named Tavis, 2025

1 in 368,000

Tavis over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tavis: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tavis means

Tavis is a given name.

The naming story behind Tavis

Wikidata records Tavis as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q62087617, 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, 2,210 boys were recorded with the name Tavis between 1963 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 79 in 1999; its best national rank was #1,011 in 1977.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,440 in 2020 to #8,838 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,277 in 2015 to #8,838 in 2025.

In the United States, 6 girls were recorded with the name Tavis between 1977 and 1977. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1977; its best national rank was #9,527 in 1977.

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 Tavis?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 190,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,838
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tavis 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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tavis. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Taviss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tavis was born before 1992 — so the typical Tavis is around 33 today.

Median birth year
1992
About 33 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
24.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
26.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,210
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 24.9% of all recorded uses (551).

Is Tavis 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
+3,350
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,398
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,561
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.64×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
11.4%
Peak was 1999 (79)
Years since peak
26
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,011
1977

Spellings of Tavis

Tavis is not the most common spelling — David is, with 84.0% against Tavis's 0.05%.

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 Tavis is used

Across 1910–2025, Tavis was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 377,059 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 100,000
  2. 2North Carolina1 in 100,000
  3. 3California1 in —
  4. 4Georgia1 in —
  5. 5Illinois1 in —
  6. 6Louisiana1 in —
  7. 7Mississippi1 in —
  8. 8New York1 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. Tavis has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Tavis around the world

Where Tavis 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
    1996–2015
    #4,747
    in 2015
  • Canada
    1991–2018
    #2,905
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    1973–2011
    #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.

Notable people named Tavis

People whose public names include Tavis, 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.

Tavis by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,838
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,398
Best rank ever
#1,011
1977
Peak year
1999
79 that year
First recorded
1963
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,210
Count in 2025
9

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#9,527
1977
Peak year
1977
6 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
1977
All-time count
6
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tavis

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

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Names with a curve like Tavis

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

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Sibling names for Tavis

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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