Gaven
Gaven is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 9 births. Its best rank was 687th, in 2003.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 90.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 2003282 births
- Best rank
- #687in 2003
- Since 1972
- 3,832people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,832 boys have been named Gaven in the United States since 1972, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2003, with 282 births.
The name has all but left use: 9 births in 2024, against 282 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2004, and the 2000s alone account for 59%. It has spent 10 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 2003, its biggest year
Gaven was the 687th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2003 were Jacob, Michael, Joshua, Matthew and Andrew. See all of 2003.
Names that rose and fell with Gaven
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Hadynpeak 2003
- Camronpeak 2003
- Braedonpeak 2006
- Jaylinpeak 2002
- Bradenpeak 2005
- Donavinpeak 2005
- Jadanpeak 2005
- Kadinpeak 2004
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.