Donavan
Last seen for girls in 1997 at #13,724 · #2,421 for boys in 2025, 56 births
Given to boys 99.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1999 · 262 births
- Debut · boys
- 9 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 8,300since 1919
Donavan over time
Rank among boys' names. Donavan has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #2,421 | 56 | |
| 2024 | — | #3,216 | 37 | |
| 2023 | — | #2,441 | 55 | |
| 2022 | — | #3,151 | 38 | |
| 2021 | — | #2,732 | 46 | |
| 2020 | — | #2,467 | 52 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,851 | 43 | |
| 2018 | — | #1,920 | 77 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,681 | 94 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,921 | 76 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,657 | 95 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,714 | 88 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,510 | 107 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,376 | 122 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,377 | 121 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,108 | 172 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,024 | 190 | |
| 2008 | — | #963 | 208 | |
| 2007 | — | #909 | 218 | |
| 2006 | — | #812 | 251 | |
| 2005 | — | #748 | 269 | |
| 2004 | — | #731 | 258 | |
| 2003 | — | #706 | 266 | |
| 2002 | — | #678 | 270 | |
| 2001 | — | #680 | 267 | |
| 2000 | — | #735 | 233 | |
| 1999 | — | #659 | 262 | |
| 1998 | — | #688 | 244 | |
| 1997 | #13,724 | 5 | #681 | 238 |
| 1996 | — | #763 | 193 | |
| 1995 | — | #816 | 172 | |
| 1994 | — | #734 | 205 | |
| 1993 | — | #730 | 203 | |
| 1992 | — | #703 | 214 | |
| 1991 | — | #676 | 224 | |
| 1990 | — | #802 | 160 | |
| 1989 | — | #758 | 169 | |
| 1988 | — | #862 | 121 | |
| 1987 | — | #846 | 122 | |
| 1986 | — | #872 | 108 | |
| 1985 | — | #917 | 98 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,076 | 69 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,130 | 63 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,362 | 48 | |
| 1981 | — | #1,111 | 67 | |
| 1980 | — | #1,042 | 75 | |
| 1979 | — | #1,137 | 62 | |
| 1978 | — | #977 | 78 | |
| 1977 | — | #928 | 84 | |
| 1976 | — | #1,010 | 67 | |
| 1975 | — | #1,019 | 65 | |
| 1974 | — | #969 | 71 | |
| 1973 | — | #978 | 68 | |
| 1972 | — | #851 | 89 | |
| 1971 | — | #941 | 75 | |
| 1970 | — | #875 | 85 | |
| 1969 | — | #804 | 92 | |
| 1968 | — | #1,314 | 34 | |
| 1967 | — | #1,043 | 49 | |
| 1966 | — | #1,540 | 25 | |
| 1965 | — | #1,513 | 26 | |
| 1964 | — | #1,615 | 24 | |
| 1963 | — | #1,695 | 22 | |
| 1962 | — | #1,757 | 21 | |
| 1961 | — | #1,731 | 22 | |
| 1960 | — | #2,210 | 14 | |
| 1959 | — | #1,467 | 29 | |
| 1958 | — | #2,370 | 12 | |
| 1957 | — | #2,274 | 13 | |
| 1956 | — | #1,642 | 23 | |
| 1955 | — | #1,791 | 19 | |
| 1954 | — | #1,826 | 18 | |
| 1953 | — | #2,099 | 14 | |
| 1952 | — | #2,073 | 14 | |
| 1951 | — | #1,725 | 19 | |
| 1950 | — | #3,681 | 5 | |
| 1949 | — | #2,453 | 10 | |
| 1948 | — | #2,443 | 10 | |
| 1947 | — | #2,251 | 12 | |
| 1946 | — | #2,030 | 13 | |
| 1945 | — | #1,926 | 13 | |
| 1944 | — | #2,309 | 10 | |
| 1943 | — | #3,538 | 5 | |
| 1942 | — | #1,867 | 15 | |
| 1941 | — | #2,656 | 8 | |
| 1940 | — | #2,081 | 12 | |
| 1939 | — | #1,795 | 15 | |
| 1938 | — | #1,976 | 13 | |
| 1937 | — | #2,905 | 7 | |
| 1936 | — | #2,629 | 8 | |
| 1935 | — | #2,396 | 10 | |
| 1934 | — | #2,393 | 10 | |
| 1933 | — | #3,004 | 7 | |
| 1932 | — | #2,638 | 9 | |
| 1931 | — | #1,693 | 18 | |
| 1930 | — | #2,609 | 10 | |
| 1929 | — | #1,848 | 17 | |
| 1928 | — | — | ||
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| 1926 | — | #3,708 | 6 | |
| 1925 | — | #2,755 | 10 | |
| 1924 | — | #2,641 | 11 | |
| 1923 | — | #3,467 | 7 | |
| 1922 | — | #3,252 | 8 | |
| 1921 | — | #4,322 | 5 | |
| 1920 | — | #2,967 | 9 | |
| 1919 | — | #2,877 | 9 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Donavan! It came in at #2,877, and was given to 9 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1927–1928, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Donavan
- 795 spots since 2024 (#3,216 → #2,421)
- 46 spots since 2020 (#2,467 → #2,421)
- 764 spots since 2015 (#1,657 → #2,421)
- Biggest jump: 510 spots in 1969 (#1,314 → #804)
- Biggest drop: 160 spots in 1979 (#977 → #1,137)
- Debuted 1919
- Peaked 1999 at #659 (262 births)
- Births halved by 2011, 12 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 32 yrs · run 1985–2008
- Highest: 1 in 7,191 boys born in 2002 were named Donavan (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 30,501 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #659 in 1999, was only 1 in 7,329 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 29.3% of all boys named Donavan (2,430) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 9 | #2,877 (1919) | #2,877 |
| 1920s | 73 | #1,848 (1929) | #3,120 |
| 1930s | 107 | #1,693 (1931) | #2,404 |
| 1940s | 108 | #1,867 (1942) | #2,355 |
| 1950s | 166 | #1,467 (1959) | #2,095 |
| 1960s | 329 | #804 (1969) | #1,522 |
| 1970s | 744 | #851 (1972) | #969 |
| 1980s | 940 | #758 (1989) | #998 |
| 1990s | 2,115 | #659 (1999) | #725 |
| 2000s | 2,430 | #678 (2002) | #799 |
| 2010s | 995 | #1,108 (2010) | #1,712 |
| 2020s | 284 | #2,421 (2025) | #2,738 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Donavan in 1997
Top girls' names in 1997
Top boys' names in 1997
More about 1997
girls
1,740,710 girls got a published name in 1997; 1 in 348,142 of them was named Donavan, which outranked 15.1% of the 16,163 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,439 names at #13,724; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,885,140 boys got a published name in 1997; 1 in 7,921 of them was named Donavan, which outranked 93.7% of the 10,814 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.