In 2025, 25 US boys were named Favian, making it the 4,169th most common boys’ name of the year, down 691 places from #3,478 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 33 boys named Favian in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,255, reached in 1990. The most boys given the name in a single year was 114, in 2006. For comparison, it was #2,618 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Favian in 53 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1961 with 8 babies. In all, 2,845 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,012 babies named Favian.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 344 US boys were named Favian; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 49. In 2025 that was about 1 in 68,323 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Faven and Favion are summarised on this page.