Donavan
Donavan is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 37 births. Its best rank was 659th, in 1999.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 370.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 2002270 births
- Best rank
- #659in 1999
- Since 1919
- 8,243people given the name
The story in the numbers
8,243 boys have been named Donavan in the United States since 1919, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2002, with 270 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1998, and the 2000s alone account for 29%. It has spent 32 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Donavan | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 9 | |
| 1920s | 73 | |
| 1930s | 107 | |
| 1940s | 108 | |
| 1950s | 166 | |
| 1960s | 329 | |
| 1970s | 744 | |
| 1980s | 940 | |
| 1990s | 2,115 | |
| 2000s | 2,430 | |
| 2010s | 994 | |
| 2020s | 228 |
In 2002, its biggest year
Donavan was the 678th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2002 were Jacob, Michael, Joshua, Matthew and Ethan. See all of 2002.
Names that rose and fell with Donavan
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Eduardopeak 2001
- Alexandropeak 2004
- Gustavopeak 2000
- Estevanpeak 2003
- Luispeak 2007
- Wilpeak 2005
- Luizpeak 2000
- Gerardopeak 2000
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.