Zaven
#3,844 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Zaven has been given to 552 babies in the U.S. since 1918. In 2025 it ranked #3,844 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 29 recorded.
Babies named Zaven, 2025
1 in 114,000
Zaven over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Zaven?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 114,000
- 29 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 58,900
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #3,844
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 79,239 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Zaven sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 79,239 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zaven. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Zavens were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Zaven was born before 2012 — so the typical Zaven is around 13 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 35.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 83.2%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 515
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 35.9% of all recorded uses (198).
Is Zaven 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
- +582
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +1,846
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +1,656
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.71×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2009 (29)
- Years since peak
- 16
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 28.8% average annual change
Spellings of Zaven
Zaven is not the most common spelling — Gavin is, with 19.1% against Zaven's 0.06%.
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 Zaven is used
Across 1910–2025, Zaven was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 919,473 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Massachusetts1 in —
- 3Texas1 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. Zaven has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Zaven around the world
Where Zaven 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.
- France2010–2025#3,197in 2025
- Canada1993–1993#1,824in 1993
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Zaven by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Zaven
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Zaven
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.