Meaning not yet researched.
Kavin: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 27 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,177 in 1965.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,177 in 1965; #3,997 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kavin in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,997 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1965, at #1,177.
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Kavin: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 27 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,177 in 1965 · most boys in one year: 95 (2017).
In 2025, 27 US boys were named Kavin, making it the 3,997th most common boys’ name of the year, up 381 places from #4,378 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 24 boys named Kavin in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,177, reached in 1965. The most boys given the name in a single year was 95, in 2017. For comparison, it was #1,991 in 2015 and #3,952 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kavin in 75 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1950 with 5 babies. In all, 2,934 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 762 babies named Kavin.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 447 US boys were named Kavin; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 95. In 2025 that was about 1 in 63,262 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Kavon (2,827 babies since 1880), Cavan (1,714 babies since 1880), Kayvon (1,418 babies since 1880) and Kavion (1,405 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Cavin, Kaven and Kavan 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: Cavin (1,371), Kaven (953), Kavan (885), Kayvion (539), Kaveon (398), Kaivon (324), Caven (282), Kaevon (264), Kayven (249), Cavon (198), Kavian (165), Kaiven (160), and more.
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 Kavin 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 | — | — | 27 | #3,997 |
| 2024 | — | — | 24 | #4,378 |
| 2023 | — | — | 16 | #5,792 |
| 2022 | — | — | 29 | #3,824 |
| 2021 | — | — | 37 | #3,214 |
| 2020 | — | — | 32 | #3,456 |
| 2019 | — | — | 54 | #2,474 |
| 2018 | — | — | 58 | #2,316 |
| 2017 | — | — | 95 | #1,671 |
| 2016 | — | — | 75 | #1,949 |
| 2015 | — | — | 73 | #1,991 |
| 2014 | — | — | 65 | #2,132 |
| 2013 | — | — | 73 | #1,925 |
| 2012 | — | — | 87 | #1,734 |
| 2011 | — | — | 87 | #1,710 |
| 2010 | — | — | 95 | #1,649 |
| 2009 | — | — | 81 | #1,834 |
| 2008 | — | — | 84 | #1,784 |
| 2007 | — | — | 72 | #1,965 |
| 2006 | — | — | 64 | #2,073 |
| 2005 | — | — | 77 | #1,733 |
| 2004 | — | — | 60 | #2,007 |
| 2003 | — | — | 68 | #1,773 |
| 2002 | — | — | 45 | #2,320 |
| 2001 | — | — | 57 | #1,922 |
| 2000 | — | — | 30 | #2,955 |
| 1999 | — | — | 26 | #3,150 |
| 1998 | — | — | 27 | #2,975 |
| 1997 | — | — | 40 | #2,188 |
| 1996 | — | — | 27 | #2,792 |
| 1995 | — | — | 29 | #2,594 |
| 1994 | — | — | 30 | #2,535 |
| 1993 | — | — | 33 | #2,320 |
| 1992 | — | — | 27 | #2,638 |
| 1991 | — | — | 43 | #1,850 |
| 1990 | — | — | 24 | #2,740 |
| 1989 | — | — | 35 | #2,045 |
| 1988 | — | — | 27 | #2,275 |
| 1987 | — | — | 30 | #2,033 |
| 1986 | — | — | 32 | #1,898 |
| 1985 | — | — | 19 | #2,649 |
| 1984 | — | — | 29 | #1,916 |
| 1983 | — | — | 29 | #1,882 |
| 1982 | — | — | 27 | #2,030 |
| 1981 | — | — | 45 | #1,424 |
| 1980 | — | — | 22 | #2,326 |
| 1979 | — | — | 24 | #2,130 |
| 1978 | — | — | 19 | #2,431 |
| 1977 | — | — | 35 | #1,590 |
| 1976 | — | — | 19 | #2,379 |
| 1975 | — | — | 19 | #2,323 |
| 1974 | — | — | 30 | #1,638 |
| 1973 | — | — | 24 | #1,849 |
| 1972 | — | — | 43 | #1,274 |
| 1971 | — | — | 35 | #1,451 |
| 1970 | — | — | 40 | #1,321 |
| 1969 | — | — | 33 | #1,402 |
| 1968 | — | — | 29 | #1,468 |
| 1967 | — | — | 29 | #1,426 |
| 1966 | — | — | 33 | #1,332 |
| 1965 | — | — | 42 | #1,177 |
| 1964 | — | — | 38 | #1,269 |
| 1963 | — | — | 32 | #1,390 |
| 1962 | — | — | 35 | #1,325 |
| 1961 | — | — | 37 | #1,309 |
| 1960 | — | — | 37 | #1,306 |
| 1959 | — | — | 27 | #1,545 |
| 1958 | — | — | 29 | #1,465 |
| 1957 | — | — | 18 | #1,925 |
| 1956 | — | — | 20 | #1,785 |
| 1955 | — | — | 15 | #2,095 |
| 1954 | — | — | 10 | #2,664 |
| 1952 | — | — | 5 | #4,006 |
| 1951 | — | — | 6 | #3,551 |
| 1950 | — | — | 5 | #3,952 |
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).