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Tavon

#5,176 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Tavon has been given to 4,147 babies in the U.S. since 1972. In 2025 it ranked #5,176 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1996, with 188 recorded.

Babies named Tavon, 2025

1 in 174,000

Tavon over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tavon: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tavon means

Tavon is a given name.

The naming story behind Tavon

Wikidata records Tavon as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q85704225, 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, 4,069 boys were recorded with the name Tavon between 1972 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 188 in 1996; its best national rank was #777 in 1996.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,336 in 2020 to #5,176 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,427 in 2015 to #5,176 in 2025.

In the United States, 78 girls were recorded with the name Tavon between 1975 and 2002. Its highest annual count was 13 in 1988; its best national rank was #6,249 in 1988.

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 Tavon?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 174,000
19 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 89,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,176
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
120,943 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tavon 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 120,943 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tavon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tavons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tavon was born before 1997 — so the typical Tavon is around 28 today.

Median birth year
1997
About 28 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
35.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
39.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
4,069
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 35.0% of all recorded uses (1,424).

Is Tavon 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
−1,583
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,840
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,749
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.36×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
10.1%
Peak was 1996 (188)
Years since peak
29
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#777
1996

Spellings of Tavon

Tavon is not the most common spelling — Jason is, with 35.0% against Tavon's 0.14%.

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 Tavon is used

Across 1910–2025, Tavon was most concentrated in Maryland — about 1 in 2,041 boys, against 1 in 49,140 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

049 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Maryland1 in 2,041
  2. 2District of Columbia1 in 4,545
  3. 3Virginia1 in 20,000
  4. 4North Carolina1 in 50,000
  5. 5South Carolina1 in 50,000
  6. 6Connecticut1 in 100,000
  7. 7Florida1 in 100,000
  8. 8Georgia1 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. Tavon has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Tavon around the world

Where Tavon 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
    1996–2010
    #3,332
    in 2010
  • Canada
    1996–2011
    #2,664
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Tavon

People whose public names include Tavon, 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.

Tavon by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,176
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,840
Best rank ever
#777
1996
Peak year
1996
188 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,069
Count in 2025
19

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#6,249
1988
Peak year
1988
13 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2002
All-time count
78
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tavon

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

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Names with a curve like Tavon

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

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Sibling names for Tavon

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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