In 2025, 19 US boys were named Tavares, making it the 5,176th most common boys’ name of the year, up 979 places from #6,155 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 15 boys named Tavares in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #634, reached in 1976. The most boys given the name in a single year was 170, in 1977. For comparison, it was #5,264 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Tavares in 52 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1974 with 68 babies. In all, 3,008 US babies have been given the name, 0.8% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 888 babies named Tavares.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 179 US boys were named Tavares; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 27. In 2025 that was about 1 in 89,899 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Tavaris (2,526 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Tavarus, Tavarius and Tavoris are summarised on this page.