Meaning not yet researched.
Gavan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 5 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,583 in 2003.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,583 in 2003; #12,657 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Gavan in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#12,657 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2003, at #1,583.
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Gavan: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 5 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,583 in 2003 · most boys in one year: 80 (2003).
In 2025, 5 US boys were named Gavan, making it the 12,657th most common boys’ name of the year, up 278 places from #12,935 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 5 boys named Gavan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,583, reached in 2003. That year also had the most boys given the name: 80. For comparison, it was #8,265 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Gavan in 42 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1970 with 5 babies. In all, 987 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 553 babies named Gavan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 48 US boys were named Gavan; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 11. In 2025 that was about 1 in 341,615 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Gavin (189,665 babies since 1880), Gavyn (5,339 babies since 1880) and Gaven (3,839 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Gavan 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 | — | — | 5 | #12,657 |
| 2024 | — | — | 5 | #12,935 |
| 2022 | — | — | 5 | #12,987 |
| 2020 | — | — | 7 | #9,907 |
| 2018 | — | — | 9 | #8,382 |
| 2017 | — | — | 6 | #11,222 |
| 2016 | — | — | 11 | #7,300 |
| 2015 | — | — | 9 | #8,265 |
| 2014 | — | — | 13 | #6,419 |
| 2013 | — | — | 26 | #3,893 |
| 2012 | — | — | 26 | #3,937 |
| 2011 | — | — | 38 | #3,017 |
| 2010 | — | — | 44 | #2,753 |
| 2009 | — | — | 70 | #1,994 |
| 2008 | — | — | 53 | #2,415 |
| 2007 | — | — | 67 | #2,056 |
| 2006 | — | — | 43 | #2,711 |
| 2005 | — | — | 50 | #2,343 |
| 2004 | — | — | 60 | #2,000 |
| 2003 | — | — | 80 | #1,583 |
| 2002 | — | — | 46 | #2,267 |
| 2001 | — | — | 36 | #2,640 |
| 2000 | — | — | 48 | #2,099 |
| 1999 | — | — | 33 | #2,637 |
| 1998 | — | — | 20 | #3,627 |
| 1997 | — | — | 29 | #2,694 |
| 1996 | — | — | 18 | #3,731 |
| 1995 | — | — | 16 | #3,931 |
| 1994 | — | — | 15 | #4,165 |
| 1993 | — | — | 13 | #4,538 |
| 1992 | — | — | 10 | #5,370 |
| 1991 | — | — | 7 | #6,776 |
| 1990 | — | — | 14 | #4,046 |
| 1989 | — | — | 7 | #6,460 |
| 1988 | — | — | 6 | #6,699 |
| 1987 | — | — | 8 | #5,126 |
| 1984 | — | — | 7 | #5,162 |
| 1982 | — | — | 5 | #6,694 |
| 1981 | — | — | 5 | #6,614 |
| 1980 | — | — | 7 | #5,126 |
| 1978 | — | — | 5 | #6,133 |
| 1970 | — | — | 5 | #4,980 |
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).