Meaning not yet researched.
Zavian: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 169 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,129 in 2020.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,129 in 2020; #1,202 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Zavian in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,202 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2020, at #1,129.
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Zavian: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 169 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,129 in 2020 · most boys in one year: 174 (2020).
In 2025, 169 US boys were named Zavian, making it the 1,202nd most common boys’ name of the year, up 278 places from #1,480 in 2024. That is 46 more than the 123 boys named Zavian in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,129, reached in 2020. That year also had the most boys given the name: 174. For comparison, it was #2,017 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Zavian in 36 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1984 with 6 babies. In all, 2,303 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 880 babies named Zavian.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,315 US boys were named Zavian; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 174. In 2025 that was about 1 in 10,107 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Zavian ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #767 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Savion (5,005 babies since 1880), Zavion (3,231 babies since 1880) and Zayvion (2,215 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Zaavan 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: Zaavan (26).
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 Zavian in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 40 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 19 | #767 | — |
| Arizona | 7 | #841 | — |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #895 | #823 |
| Florida | 16 | #911 | #1,271 |
| Maryland | 5 | #918 | — |
| Georgia | 9 | #986 | — |
| Texas | 24 | #1,009 | #1,757 |
| California | 21 | #1,038 | #2,041 |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,227 | — |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,250 | — |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,466 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 169 | #1,202 |
| 2024 | — | — | 123 | #1,480 |
| 2023 | — | — | 130 | #1,415 |
| 2022 | — | — | 104 | #1,664 |
| 2021 | — | — | 145 | #1,305 |
| 2020 | — | — | 174 | #1,129 |
| 2019 | — | — | 139 | #1,321 |
| 2018 | — | — | 153 | #1,223 |
| 2017 | — | — | 97 | #1,643 |
| 2016 | — | — | 81 | #1,862 |
| 2015 | — | — | 72 | #2,017 |
| 2014 | — | — | 65 | #2,137 |
| 2013 | — | — | 75 | #1,902 |
| 2012 | — | — | 82 | #1,816 |
| 2011 | — | — | 58 | #2,260 |
| 2010 | — | — | 58 | #2,261 |
| 2009 | — | — | 50 | #2,558 |
| 2008 | — | — | 62 | #2,185 |
| 2007 | — | — | 62 | #2,184 |
| 2006 | — | — | 52 | #2,397 |
| 2005 | — | — | 44 | #2,566 |
| 2004 | — | — | 40 | #2,696 |
| 2003 | — | — | 39 | #2,619 |
| 2002 | — | — | 51 | #2,124 |
| 2001 | — | — | 41 | #2,428 |
| 2000 | — | — | 31 | #2,920 |
| 1999 | — | — | 22 | #3,588 |
| 1998 | — | — | 16 | #4,412 |
| 1997 | — | — | 8 | #7,274 |
| 1996 | — | — | 8 | #7,131 |
| 1995 | — | — | 6 | #8,856 |
| 1994 | — | — | 7 | #7,763 |
| 1993 | — | — | 9 | #6,223 |
| 1992 | — | — | 12 | #4,868 |
| 1991 | — | — | 12 | #4,759 |
| 1984 | — | — | 6 | #6,310 |
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).