Meaning not yet researched.
Tavis: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 9 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,011 in 1977.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,011 in 1977; #8,842 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Tavis in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,842 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1977, at #1,011.
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Tavis: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 9 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,011 in 1977 · most boys in one year: 79 (1999).
In 2025, 9 US boys were named Tavis, making it the 8,842nd most common boys’ name of the year, up 3,351 places from #12,193 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 6 boys named Tavis in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,011, reached in 1977. The most boys given the name in a single year was 79, in 1999. For comparison, it was #6,281 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Tavis in 63 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1963 with 8 babies. In all, 2,216 US babies have been given the name, 0.3% of them girls and 99.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 551 babies named Tavis.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 92 US boys were named Tavis; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 15. In 2025 that was about 1 in 189,786 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Tavish, Tavius and Tavious 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Tavish (785), Tavius (410), Tavious (159), Tavias (7), Taves (6).
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 Tavis 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 | — | — | 9 | #8,842 |
| 2024 | — | — | 6 | #12,193 |
| 2023 | — | — | 9 | #8,844 |
| 2022 | — | — | 5 | #14,104 |
| 2021 | — | — | 9 | #8,759 |
| 2020 | — | — | 11 | #7,445 |
| 2019 | — | — | 10 | #8,140 |
| 2018 | — | — | 15 | #6,008 |
| 2017 | — | — | 10 | #8,079 |
| 2016 | — | — | 8 | #9,574 |
| 2015 | — | — | 14 | #6,281 |
| 2014 | — | — | 11 | #7,500 |
| 2013 | — | — | 24 | #4,164 |
| 2012 | — | — | 32 | #3,439 |
| 2011 | — | — | 20 | #4,804 |
| 2010 | — | — | 23 | #4,350 |
| 2009 | — | — | 28 | #3,818 |
| 2008 | — | — | 29 | #3,731 |
| 2007 | — | — | 48 | #2,596 |
| 2006 | — | — | 50 | #2,473 |
| 2005 | — | — | 42 | #2,646 |
| 2004 | — | — | 49 | #2,337 |
| 2003 | — | — | 37 | #2,721 |
| 2002 | — | — | 39 | #2,552 |
| 2001 | — | — | 49 | #2,144 |
| 2000 | — | — | 63 | #1,765 |
| 1999 | — | — | 79 | #1,469 |
| 1998 | — | — | 76 | #1,472 |
| 1997 | — | — | 58 | #1,704 |
| 1996 | — | — | 50 | #1,840 |
| 1995 | — | — | 43 | #1,986 |
| 1994 | — | — | 51 | #1,750 |
| 1993 | — | — | 60 | #1,538 |
| 1992 | — | — | 49 | #1,747 |
| 1991 | — | — | 50 | #1,673 |
| 1990 | — | — | 35 | #2,125 |
| 1989 | — | — | 28 | #2,406 |
| 1988 | — | — | 41 | #1,730 |
| 1987 | — | — | 34 | #1,893 |
| 1986 | — | — | 30 | #2,003 |
| 1985 | — | — | 41 | #1,592 |
| 1984 | — | — | 37 | #1,626 |
| 1983 | — | — | 57 | #1,219 |
| 1982 | — | — | 46 | #1,409 |
| 1981 | — | — | 51 | #1,308 |
| 1980 | — | — | 54 | #1,270 |
| 1979 | — | — | 66 | #1,107 |
| 1978 | — | — | 62 | #1,119 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,529 | 73 | #1,011 |
| 1976 | — | — | 65 | #1,039 |
| 1975 | — | — | 54 | #1,159 |
| 1974 | — | — | 44 | #1,287 |
| 1973 | — | — | 47 | #1,220 |
| 1972 | — | — | 34 | #1,470 |
| 1971 | — | — | 36 | #1,437 |
| 1970 | — | — | 21 | #1,982 |
| 1969 | — | — | 23 | #1,762 |
| 1968 | — | — | 16 | #2,102 |
| 1967 | — | — | 15 | #2,128 |
| 1966 | — | — | 6 | #3,910 |
| 1965 | — | — | 11 | #2,600 |
| 1964 | — | — | 9 | #3,029 |
| 1963 | — | — | 8 | #3,294 |
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).