Meaning not yet researched.
Raven: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 771 in 2025. Its best rank was #139 in 1993.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #139 in 1993; #404 in 2025. About 95% of babies named Raven in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#404 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1993, at #139.
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Raven: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 771 girls in 2025. Peak: #139 in 1993 · most girls in one year: 2,285 (1993).
In 2025, 771 US girls were named Raven, making it the 404th most common girls’ name of the year, down 17 places from #387 in 2024. That is 45 fewer than the 816 girls named Raven in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #139, reached in 1993. That year also had the most girls given the name: 2,285. For comparison, it was #487 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Raven in 86 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1921 with 5 babies. In all, 48,253 US babies have been given the name, 93% of them girls and 6.9% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 19,631 babies named Raven.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 7,582 US girls were named Raven; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 848. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,085 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Raven ranked highest in Alaska in 2025, at #164 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Rowen (10,816 babies since 1880), Ravin (1,241 babies since 1880), Rayven (3,188 babies since 1880) and Ravyn (2,668 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Raevyn, Corvin and Raeven are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Raevyn (931), Corvin (808), Raeven (800), Raiven (433), Raveen (407), Rayvin (375), Craven (371), Raveena (336), Ravan (231), Raivyn (174), Raevon (133), Raevin (128), 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 Raven in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 10 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alaska | 5 | #164 | — |
| Iowa | 17 | #194 | #680 |
| West Virginia | 9 | #201 | #188 |
| Maine | 6 | #202 | — |
| Kentucky | 22 | #212 | #332 |
| Oregon | 16 | #240 | #339 |
| South Carolina | 21 | #241 | #255 |
| Missouri | 25 | #254 | #440 |
| Pennsylvania | 44 | #255 | #459 |
| Indiana | 26 | #276 | #288 |
| Nevada | 10 | #282 | #522 |
| Idaho | 8 | #303 | — |
| Nebraska | 7 | #330 | — |
| Tennessee | 25 | #331 | #304 |
| Oklahoma | 13 | #333 | #414 |
| Arizona | 21 | #341 | #487 |
| Ohio | 33 | #343 | #342 |
| North Carolina | 31 | #359 | #537 |
| Washington | 20 | #365 | #485 |
| New Mexico | 5 | #373 | #456 |
| Michigan | 23 | #389 | #372 |
| Florida | 47 | #401 | #344 |
| Colorado | 14 | #422 | #679 |
| Mississippi | 7 | #431 | #265 |
| Kansas | 8 | #438 | #399 |
| Connecticut | 7 | #445 | — |
| Georgia | 26 | #449 | #383 |
| New York | 37 | #470 | #810 |
| Louisiana | 10 | #471 | #481 |
| Utah | 9 | #476 | #615 |
| Alabama | 11 | #477 | #209 |
| Minnesota | 11 | #498 | #599 |
| Maryland | 11 | #500 | #484 |
| Wisconsin | 10 | #509 | #475 |
| Virginia | 14 | #563 | #386 |
| Illinois | 18 | #566 | #629 |
| Texas | 55 | #579 | #721 |
| Arkansas | 5 | #644 | #310 |
| California | 48 | #658 | #978 |
| Massachusetts | 7 | #742 | — |
| New Jersey | 10 | #761 | #604 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 771 | #404 | 42 | #2,973 |
| 2024 | 816 | #387 | 46 | #2,821 |
| 2023 | 848 | #361 | 43 | #2,931 |
| 2022 | 772 | #409 | 57 | #2,461 |
| 2021 | 779 | #408 | 45 | #2,807 |
| 2020 | 749 | #417 | 40 | #2,965 |
| 2019 | 746 | #425 | 33 | #3,480 |
| 2018 | 751 | #413 | 41 | #2,931 |
| 2017 | 713 | #443 | 39 | #3,055 |
| 2016 | 637 | #489 | 40 | #2,971 |
| 2015 | 658 | #487 | 37 | #3,135 |
| 2014 | 619 | #506 | 37 | #3,077 |
| 2013 | 580 | #514 | 38 | #2,986 |
| 2012 | 553 | #544 | 44 | #2,755 |
| 2011 | 489 | #592 | 39 | #2,985 |
| 2010 | 488 | #601 | 39 | #2,998 |
| 2009 | 476 | #632 | 48 | #2,616 |
| 2008 | 500 | #612 | 43 | #2,817 |
| 2007 | 631 | #507 | 35 | #3,231 |
| 2006 | 736 | #434 | 69 | #1,963 |
| 2005 | 905 | #348 | 73 | #1,797 |
| 2004 | 1,220 | #265 | 103 | #1,391 |
| 2003 | 1,428 | #231 | 137 | #1,121 |
| 2002 | 1,338 | #237 | 159 | #992 |
| 2001 | 1,355 | #234 | 178 | #889 |
| 2000 | 1,447 | #215 | 173 | #900 |
| 1999 | 1,527 | #203 | 188 | #814 |
| 1998 | 1,653 | #185 | 169 | #861 |
| 1997 | 1,781 | #170 | 142 | #949 |
| 1996 | 1,622 | #184 | 114 | #1,070 |
| 1995 | 1,757 | #171 | 98 | #1,169 |
| 1994 | 2,075 | #156 | 104 | #1,110 |
| 1993 | 2,285 | #139 | 109 | #1,068 |
| 1992 | 2,017 | #151 | 89 | #1,185 |
| 1991 | 2,026 | #150 | 53 | #1,607 |
| 1990 | 1,760 | #166 | 62 | #1,431 |
| 1989 | 476 | #495 | 27 | #2,458 |
| 1988 | 327 | #612 | 19 | #2,931 |
| 1987 | 348 | #571 | 23 | #2,446 |
| 1986 | 325 | #594 | 19 | #2,761 |
| 1985 | 403 | #505 | 20 | #2,573 |
| 1984 | 407 | #491 | 14 | #3,238 |
| 1983 | 425 | #470 | 13 | #3,376 |
| 1982 | 469 | #455 | 15 | #3,069 |
| 1981 | 380 | #520 | 22 | #2,320 |
| 1980 | 408 | #499 | 22 | #2,346 |
| 1979 | 346 | #542 | 17 | #2,751 |
| 1978 | 342 | #533 | 25 | #2,003 |
| 1977 | 299 | #579 | 20 | #2,334 |
| 1976 | 100 | #1,158 | 10 | #3,657 |
| 1975 | 17 | #3,900 | 9 | #3,876 |
| 1974 | 15 | #4,178 | 12 | #3,084 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,476 | 13 | #2,830 |
| 1972 | 25 | #2,808 | 6 | #4,851 |
| 1971 | 26 | #2,785 | 7 | #4,286 |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,221 | 15 | #2,482 |
| 1969 | 23 | #2,822 | 8 | #3,524 |
| 1968 | 14 | #3,729 | 5 | #4,602 |
| 1967 | 14 | #3,609 | 6 | #3,877 |
| 1966 | 22 | #2,642 | 8 | #3,184 |
| 1965 | 14 | #3,506 | 7 | #3,479 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,550 | 8 | #3,228 |
| 1963 | 14 | #3,592 | 8 | #3,262 |
| 1962 | 13 | #3,735 | 10 | #2,807 |
| 1961 | 8 | #5,189 | 15 | #2,217 |
| 1960 | 11 | #4,105 | 10 | #2,826 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,937 | 7 | #3,525 |
| 1958 | 13 | #3,506 | 6 | #3,846 |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,820 | 7 | #3,488 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,804 | 9 | #2,922 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,509 | 9 | #2,924 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,430 | 6 | #3,735 |
| 1953 | 12 | #3,427 | — | — |
| 1952 | 5 | #6,223 | 6 | #3,656 |
| 1951 | 5 | #6,043 | — | — |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,563 | 8 | #2,970 |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,811 | 7 | #3,249 |
| 1947 | 13 | #3,027 | 5 | #4,150 |
| 1946 | — | — | 5 | #3,906 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,434 | 9 | #2,539 |
| 1944 | — | — | 8 | #2,814 |
| 1943 | 5 | #5,218 | 7 | #3,171 |
| 1942 | 5 | #5,218 | 5 | #3,944 |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,325 | — | — |
| 1938 | — | — | 5 | #3,926 |
| 1921 | — | — | 5 | #4,839 |
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).