Boy

Favian

Meaning not yet researched.

2025 rank
#4,169
25 boys
2015
#2,618
rank
1950
—
not ranked

Favian: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 25 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,255 in 1990.

US births per year · SSA card applications

Peaked at #1,255 in 1990; #4,169 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Favian in 2025 was a boy.

Baby name · US data 1880–2025

#4,169 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1990, at #1,255.

Babies in 2025
25
Since 1880
2,845
Years on record
53

Babies named Favian, every year since 1880

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Boys

Favian: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 25 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,255 in 1990 · most boys in one year: 114 (2006).

About the name Favian

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.

Meaning

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.

Related spellings

No related spellings pass our data threshold.

Rare spellings summarised here: Faven (78), Favion (22).

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.

Nicknames

No nicknames listed for Favian in the open dataset we use.

Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).

Rank by year

Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.

CSV
YearGirlsGirls rankBoysBoys rank
2025——25#4,169
2024——33#3,478
2023——40#3,075
2022——35#3,359
2021——36#3,260
2020——24#4,182
2019——31#3,592
2018——38#3,065
2017——33#3,404
2016——49#2,565
2015——47#2,618
2014——61#2,213
2013——71#1,946
2012——80#1,838
2011——81#1,785
2010——90#1,700
2009——82#1,813
2008——87#1,743
2007——109#1,468
2006——114#1,393
2005——109#1,376
2004——102#1,397
2003——107#1,307
2002——108#1,260
2001——101#1,300
2000——93#1,365
1999——86#1,377
1998——69#1,549
1997——66#1,558
1996——64#1,557
1995——79#1,322
1994——54#1,677
1993——71#1,363
1992——64#1,440
1991——58#1,509
1990——78#1,255
1989——33#2,118
1988——34#1,922
1987——34#1,874
1986——38#1,670
1985——29#1,985
1984——23#2,251
1983——16#2,829
1982——21#2,366
1981——16#2,814
1980——25#2,130
1979——23#2,186
1978——14#2,970
1977——16#2,695
1976——22#2,134
1975——10#3,512
1974——8#3,947
1961——8#3,186

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).