Meaning not yet researched.
Donavin: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 8 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,062 in 2003.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,062 in 2003; #9,130 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Donavin in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#9,130 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2003, at #1,062.
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Donavin: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 8 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,062 in 2003 · most boys in one year: 148 (2005).
In 2025, 8 US boys were named Donavin, making it the 9,130th most common boys’ name of the year. Its best rank for boys was #1,062, reached in 2003. The most boys given the name in a single year was 148, in 2005. For comparison, it was #3,172 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Donavin in 56 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1964 with 6 babies. In all, 2,343 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,172 babies named Donavin.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 204 US boys were named Donavin; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 42. In 2025 that was about 1 in 213,510 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Donovan (61,904 babies since 1880), Donavan (8,305 babies since 1880), Donavon (5,349 babies since 1880) and Donaven (1,186 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Donnivin 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: Donnivin (26).
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 Donavin in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 8 | #9,130 |
| 2023 | — | — | 14 | #6,294 |
| 2022 | — | — | 20 | #4,896 |
| 2021 | — | — | 15 | #5,844 |
| 2020 | — | — | 27 | #3,849 |
| 2019 | — | — | 18 | #5,214 |
| 2018 | — | — | 27 | #3,915 |
| 2017 | — | — | 33 | #3,399 |
| 2016 | — | — | 42 | #2,848 |
| 2015 | — | — | 36 | #3,172 |
| 2014 | — | — | 35 | #3,168 |
| 2013 | — | — | 50 | #2,470 |
| 2012 | — | — | 53 | #2,386 |
| 2011 | — | — | 65 | #2,064 |
| 2010 | — | — | 83 | #1,784 |
| 2009 | — | — | 94 | #1,670 |
| 2008 | — | — | 122 | #1,393 |
| 2007 | — | — | 124 | #1,353 |
| 2006 | — | — | 117 | #1,375 |
| 2005 | — | — | 148 | #1,113 |
| 2004 | — | — | 128 | #1,197 |
| 2003 | — | — | 146 | #1,062 |
| 2002 | — | — | 117 | #1,196 |
| 2001 | — | — | 90 | #1,390 |
| 2000 | — | — | 86 | #1,436 |
| 1999 | — | — | 64 | #1,660 |
| 1998 | — | — | 63 | #1,651 |
| 1997 | — | — | 56 | #1,736 |
| 1996 | — | — | 59 | #1,643 |
| 1995 | — | — | 42 | #1,995 |
| 1994 | — | — | 33 | #2,360 |
| 1993 | — | — | 51 | #1,705 |
| 1992 | — | — | 39 | #2,010 |
| 1991 | — | — | 29 | #2,423 |
| 1990 | — | — | 16 | #3,648 |
| 1989 | — | — | 19 | #3,122 |
| 1988 | — | — | 12 | #3,977 |
| 1987 | — | — | 12 | #3,792 |
| 1986 | — | — | 9 | #4,571 |
| 1985 | — | — | 13 | #3,460 |
| 1984 | — | — | 8 | #4,667 |
| 1983 | — | — | 9 | #4,233 |
| 1982 | — | — | 8 | #4,711 |
| 1981 | — | — | 13 | #3,271 |
| 1980 | — | — | 12 | #3,471 |
| 1979 | — | — | 8 | #4,526 |
| 1978 | — | — | 8 | #4,259 |
| 1977 | — | — | 7 | #4,729 |
| 1976 | — | — | 8 | #4,109 |
| 1975 | — | — | 7 | #4,452 |
| 1974 | — | — | 7 | #4,296 |
| 1973 | — | — | 7 | #4,192 |
| 1972 | — | — | 5 | #5,173 |
| 1971 | — | — | 8 | #3,748 |
| 1969 | — | — | 7 | #3,689 |
| 1964 | — | — | 6 | #3,724 |
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).