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Zavian

#1,202 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Zavian has been given to 2,303 babies in the U.S. since 1984. In 2025 it ranked #1,202 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 174 recorded.

Babies named Zavian, 2025

1 in 19,600

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zavian: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Zavian means

Zavian is a given name.

The naming story behind Zavian

Wikidata records Zavian as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q140467453, 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, 2,303 boys were recorded with the name Zavian between 1984 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 174 in 2020; its best national rank was #1,129 in 2020.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,129 in 2020 to #1,202 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,017 in 2015 to #1,202 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 Zavian?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 19,600
169 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 10,100
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,202
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
13,598 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zavian 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 5003%

Put another way: gather 13,598 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zavian. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zavians were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zavian was born before 2017 — so the typical Zavian is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
38.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
94.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,303
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 38.2% of all recorded uses (880).

Is Zavian 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
+278
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−73
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+815
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.35×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
97.1%
Peak was 2020 (174)
Years since peak
5
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,129
2020

Spellings of Zavian

Zavian is not the most common spelling — Gavin is, with 37.9% against Zavian's 0.46%.

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 Zavian is used

Across 2016–2025, Zavian was most concentrated in Massachusetts — about 1 in 6,667 boys, against 1 in 13,357 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in 100,000).

115 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Massachusetts1 in 6,667
  2. 2Texas1 in 7,692
  3. 3Colorado1 in 8,333
  4. 4Arizona1 in 9,091
  5. 5New York1 in 10,000
  6. 6Florida1 in 11,111
  7. 7Georgia1 in 12,500
  8. 8New Mexico1 in 12,500

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.

Zavian around the world

Where Zavian 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
    2010–2025
    #611
    in 2025
  • France
    2023–2025
    #6,715
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2014–2024
    #1,144
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Zavian by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,202
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 73
Best rank ever
#1,129
2020
Peak year
2020
174 that year
First recorded
1984
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,303
Count in 2025
169

Names similar to Zavian

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

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Names with a curve like Zavian

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

IlyasZakariyaTaylenMalikaiLakenMattiasDenimKylinElyasGadielJeriahYazan

Sibling names for Zavian

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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