Meaning not yet researched.
Donavan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 56 in 2025. Its best rank was #659 in 1999.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #659 in 1999; #2,426 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Donavan in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,426 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1999, at #659.
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Donavan: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 56 boys in 2025. Peak: #659 in 1999 · most boys in one year: 270 (2002).
In 2025, 56 US boys were named Donavan, making it the 2,426th most common boys’ name of the year, up 806 places from #3,232 in 2024. That is 19 more than the 37 boys named Donavan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #659, reached in 1999. The most boys given the name in a single year was 270, in 2002. For comparison, it was #1,658 in 2015 and #3,819 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Donavan in 105 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1919 with 9 babies. In all, 8,305 US babies have been given the name, 0.1% of them girls and 99.9% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 2,430 babies named Donavan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 574 US boys were named Donavan; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 94. In 2025 that was about 1 in 30,501 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Donavan ranked highest in Texas in 2025, at #1,787 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Donovan (61,904 babies since 1880), Donavon (5,349 babies since 1880), Donavin (2,343 babies since 1880) and Donaven (1,186 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Donnavin, Donnavon and Donnaven are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Donnavin (73), Donnavon (45), Donnaven (16).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Donavan in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 9 | #1,787 | #2,198 |
| California | 6 | #2,263 | #1,331 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 56 | #2,426 |
| 2024 | — | — | 37 | #3,232 |
| 2023 | — | — | 55 | #2,450 |
| 2022 | — | — | 38 | #3,173 |
| 2021 | — | — | 46 | #2,740 |
| 2020 | — | — | 52 | #2,474 |
| 2019 | — | — | 43 | #2,869 |
| 2018 | — | — | 77 | #1,926 |
| 2017 | — | — | 94 | #1,685 |
| 2016 | — | — | 76 | #1,929 |
| 2015 | — | — | 95 | #1,658 |
| 2014 | — | — | 88 | #1,716 |
| 2013 | — | — | 107 | #1,514 |
| 2012 | — | — | 122 | #1,378 |
| 2011 | — | — | 121 | #1,377 |
| 2010 | — | — | 172 | #1,110 |
| 2009 | — | — | 190 | #1,024 |
| 2008 | — | — | 208 | #963 |
| 2007 | — | — | 218 | #910 |
| 2006 | — | — | 251 | #813 |
| 2005 | — | — | 269 | #748 |
| 2004 | — | — | 258 | #732 |
| 2003 | — | — | 266 | #706 |
| 2002 | — | — | 270 | #678 |
| 2001 | — | — | 267 | #680 |
| 2000 | — | — | 233 | #736 |
| 1999 | — | — | 262 | #659 |
| 1998 | — | — | 244 | #689 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,372 | 238 | #681 |
| 1996 | — | — | 193 | #764 |
| 1995 | — | — | 172 | #816 |
| 1994 | — | — | 205 | #734 |
| 1993 | — | — | 203 | #730 |
| 1992 | — | — | 214 | #703 |
| 1991 | — | — | 224 | #676 |
| 1990 | — | — | 160 | #803 |
| 1989 | — | — | 169 | #759 |
| 1988 | — | — | 121 | #862 |
| 1987 | — | — | 122 | #847 |
| 1986 | — | — | 108 | #874 |
| 1985 | — | — | 98 | #920 |
| 1984 | — | — | 69 | #1,078 |
| 1983 | — | — | 63 | #1,134 |
| 1982 | — | — | 48 | #1,367 |
| 1981 | — | — | 67 | #1,114 |
| 1980 | — | — | 75 | #1,043 |
| 1979 | — | — | 62 | #1,140 |
| 1978 | — | — | 78 | #978 |
| 1977 | — | — | 84 | #928 |
| 1976 | — | — | 67 | #1,015 |
| 1975 | — | — | 65 | #1,023 |
| 1974 | — | — | 71 | #970 |
| 1973 | — | — | 68 | #979 |
| 1972 | — | — | 89 | #852 |
| 1971 | — | — | 75 | #943 |
| 1970 | — | — | 85 | #877 |
| 1969 | — | — | 92 | #805 |
| 1968 | — | — | 34 | #1,324 |
| 1967 | — | — | 49 | #1,046 |
| 1966 | — | — | 25 | #1,547 |
| 1965 | — | — | 26 | #1,532 |
| 1964 | — | — | 24 | #1,624 |
| 1963 | — | — | 22 | #1,711 |
| 1962 | — | — | 21 | #1,773 |
| 1961 | — | — | 22 | #1,751 |
| 1960 | — | — | 14 | #2,238 |
| 1959 | — | — | 29 | #1,472 |
| 1958 | — | — | 12 | #2,402 |
| 1957 | — | — | 13 | #2,297 |
| 1956 | — | — | 23 | #1,656 |
| 1955 | — | — | 19 | #1,803 |
| 1954 | — | — | 18 | #1,846 |
| 1953 | — | — | 14 | #2,120 |
| 1952 | — | — | 14 | #2,097 |
| 1951 | — | — | 19 | #1,741 |
| 1950 | — | — | 5 | #3,819 |
| 1949 | — | — | 10 | #2,493 |
| 1948 | — | — | 10 | #2,491 |
| 1947 | — | — | 12 | #2,274 |
| 1946 | — | — | 13 | #2,056 |
| 1945 | — | — | 13 | #1,949 |
| 1944 | — | — | 10 | #2,348 |
| 1943 | — | — | 5 | #3,675 |
| 1942 | — | — | 15 | #1,888 |
| 1941 | — | — | 8 | #2,709 |
| 1940 | — | — | 12 | #2,106 |
| 1939 | — | — | 15 | #1,817 |
| 1938 | — | — | 13 | #2,008 |
| 1937 | — | — | 7 | #2,984 |
| 1936 | — | — | 8 | #2,690 |
| 1935 | — | — | 10 | #2,426 |
| 1934 | — | — | 10 | #2,438 |
| 1933 | — | — | 7 | #3,085 |
| 1932 | — | — | 9 | #2,686 |
| 1931 | — | — | 18 | #1,716 |
| 1930 | — | — | 10 | #2,646 |
| 1929 | — | — | 17 | #1,870 |
| 1926 | — | — | 6 | #3,821 |
| 1925 | — | — | 10 | #2,799 |
| 1924 | — | — | 11 | #2,695 |
| 1923 | — | — | 7 | #3,558 |
| 1922 | — | — | 8 | #3,320 |
| 1921 | — | — | 5 | #4,510 |
| 1920 | — | — | 9 | #3,017 |
| 1919 | — | — | 9 | #2,937 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).