Gavin
Gavin is ranked 255th among boys in 2024 (1,380 births). Its best rank was 30th, in 2008.
- Rank in 2024
- #255down 23 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 1,3800.08% of boys
- Peak year
- 200711,863 births
- Best rank
- #30in 2008
- Since 1913
- 188,131people given the name
The story in the numbers
188,131 boys have been named Gavin in the United States since 1913, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2007, with 11,863 births — 0.57% of all boys recorded that year.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 61 → 255).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2008, and the 2000s alone account for 47%. It has spent 69 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 18 of them in the top 100.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Gavin | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 49 | |
| 1920s | 124 | |
| 1930s | 113 | |
| 1940s | 177 | |
| 1950s | 504 | |
| 1960s | 1,572 | |
| 1970s | 2,667 | |
| 1980s | 5,384 | |
| 1990s | 17,278 | |
| 2000s | 88,445 | |
| 2010s | 62,325 | |
| 2020s | 9,493 |
In 2007, its biggest year
Gavin was the 32nd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2007 were Jacob, Michael, Ethan, Joshua and Daniel. See all of 2007.
Names that rose and fell with Gavin
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Camrenpeak 2006
- Abhinavpeak 2008
- Jayshawnpeak 2010
- Gavynpeak 2008
- Braydonpeak 2009
- Adityapeak 2008
- Keagenpeak 2008
- Eyanpeak 2012
Other spellings in the data
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.