Meaning not yet researched.
Nevan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 14 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,712 in 2004.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,712 in 2004; #6,340 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Nevan in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,340 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2004, at #1,712.
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Nevan: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 14 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,712 in 2004 · most boys in one year: 75 (2004).
In 2025, 14 US boys were named Nevan, making it the 6,340th most common boys’ name of the year, down 748 places from #5,592 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 17 boys named Nevan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,712, reached in 2004. That year also had the most boys given the name: 75. For comparison, it was #3,203 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nevan in 37 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1986 with 5 babies. In all, 1,189 US babies have been given the name, 0.4% of them girls and 99.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 591 babies named Nevan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 199 US boys were named Nevan; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 32. In 2025 that was about 1 in 122,005 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Nevin (6,471 babies since 1880) and Nivaan (608 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 Nevan 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 | — | — | 14 | #6,340 |
| 2024 | — | — | 17 | #5,592 |
| 2023 | — | — | 24 | #4,427 |
| 2022 | — | — | 20 | #4,972 |
| 2021 | — | — | 19 | #5,062 |
| 2020 | — | — | 19 | #4,983 |
| 2019 | — | — | 12 | #7,057 |
| 2018 | — | — | 23 | #4,450 |
| 2017 | — | — | 19 | #5,057 |
| 2016 | — | — | 32 | #3,496 |
| 2015 | — | — | 36 | #3,203 |
| 2014 | — | — | 44 | #2,738 |
| 2013 | — | — | 43 | #2,749 |
| 2012 | — | — | 42 | #2,857 |
| 2011 | — | — | 52 | #2,430 |
| 2010 | — | — | 49 | #2,540 |
| 2009 | — | — | 72 | #1,970 |
| 2008 | 5 | #19,645 | 57 | #2,316 |
| 2007 | — | — | 69 | #2,029 |
| 2006 | — | — | 69 | #1,962 |
| 2005 | — | — | 65 | #1,960 |
| 2004 | — | — | 75 | #1,712 |
| 2003 | — | — | 63 | #1,882 |
| 2002 | — | — | 57 | #1,964 |
| 2001 | — | — | 27 | #3,297 |
| 2000 | — | — | 32 | #2,846 |
| 1999 | — | — | 30 | #2,844 |
| 1998 | — | — | 23 | #3,359 |
| 1997 | — | — | 12 | #5,180 |
| 1996 | — | — | 13 | #4,806 |
| 1995 | — | — | 11 | #5,406 |
| 1994 | — | — | 11 | #5,346 |
| 1993 | — | — | 5 | #9,721 |
| 1992 | — | — | 8 | #6,512 |
| 1991 | — | — | 8 | #6,349 |
| 1990 | — | — | 7 | #6,942 |
| 1986 | — | — | 5 | #7,483 |
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).