Donavon

#5,608 for boys in 2025, 16 births

Peak · boys
#914
1988 · 109 births
Debut · boys
1915
7 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
5,349
since 1915

Donavon over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Donavon has never cracked the top 900 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202003peak #914, 1988boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yearboys
rankbirths
2025#5,60816
2024#7,76510
2023#3,80229
2022#5,21518
2021#4,93619
2020#5,45116
2019#4,00326
2018#3,60730
2017#4,33123
2016#3,23035
2015#3,14936
2014#2,62246
2013#2,56247
2012#2,67845
2011#2,23258
2010#1,94072
2009#1,69892
2008#1,543104
2007#1,380119
2006#1,374117
2005#1,266123
2004#1,251120
2003#1,076144
2002#1,026149
2001#1,014147
2000#967156
1999#978146
1998#1,050128
1997#981132
1996#1,030119
1995#1,107105
1994#1,041114
1993#965124
1992#997118
1991#1,038108
1990#1,10294
1989#1,15085
1988#914109
1987#1,17567
1986#1,29956
1985#1,30454
1984#1,63036
1983#1,68734
1982#1,77432
1981#1,50041
1980#1,22756
1979#1,43542
1978#1,39344
1977#1,15857
1976#1,34643
1975#1,45537
1974#1,18249
1973#1,06858
1972#97669
1971#91479
1970#1,17849
1969#1,01757
1968#1,23338
1967#1,28734
1966#1,19439
1965#1,66922
1964#1,90018
1963#1,65923
1962#1,66923
1961#1,49629
1960#1,65824
1959#1,46729
1958#1,89618
1957#2,01916
1956#1,44329
1955#1,72520
1954#1,88717
1953#1,95816
1952#2,25112
1951#1,90416
1950#1,46425
1949#1,38028
1948#1,21735
1947#1,33630
1946#2,03013
1945#1,85214
1944#1,15233
1943#2,18212
1942#1,58520
1941#1,44622
1940#1,09036
1939#1,53219
1938#1,07636
1937#1,23329
1936#1,05137
1935#1,14833
1934#1,26628
1933#1,28127
1932#1,46523
1931#1,19433
1930#1,19035
1929#1,27231
1928#1,70720
1927#1,51625
1926#2,56611
1925#2,31313
1924#1,96417
1923#1,94117
1922#1,95217
1921#1,98017
1920#2,76510
1919#3,3917
1918#2,69910
1917#2,7329
1916#2,9268
1915#3,0827
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First appearance
1915

The first year at least five boys were named Donavon! It came in at #3,082, and was given to 7 baby boys.

Quietest stretch: 1915–1920, when fewer than 11 boys a year got the name.

See more about Donavon
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 2,157 spots since 2024 (#7,765 → #5,608)
  • 157 spots since 2020 (#5,451 → #5,608)
  • 2,459 spots since 2015 (#3,149 → #5,608)
  • Biggest jump: 264 spots in 1971 (#1,178 → #914)
  • Biggest drop: 236 spots in 1989 (#914 → #1,150)
Rise & fade · boys
73 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1915
  • Peaked 1988 at #914 (109 births)
  • Births halved by 2012, 24 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 8 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 8 yrs · run 1971–1972
Share of babies · boys
1 in 12,590
  • Highest: 1 in 12,590 boys born in 2000 were named Donavon (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 106,755 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #914 in 1988, was only 1 in 17,562 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2000s
  • 23.8% of all boys named Donavon (1,271) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s41#2,699 (1918)#2,966
1920s178#1,272 (1929)#1,998
1930s300#1,051 (1936)#1,244
1940s243#1,090 (1940)#1,527
1950s198#1,443 (1956)#1,801
1960s307#1,017 (1969)#1,478
1970s527#914 (1971)#1,211
1980s570#914 (1988)#1,366
1990s1,188#965 (1993)#1,029
2000s1,271#967 (2000)#1,260
2010s418#1,940 (2010)#3,035
2020s108#3,802 (2023)#5,463

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.

Donavon in 2003

boys
#1,076
144 births · 1 in 13,718 boys

Top boys' names in 2003

  1. #1Jacob29,658
  2. #2Michael27,129
  3. #3Joshua25,106
  4. #4Matthew24,011
  5. #5Andrew22,162
  6. #6Joseph21,394
  7. #7Ethan21,362
  8. #8Daniel21,072
  9. #9Christopher20,753
  10. #10Anthony20,149
  11. #1,076Donavon144
More about 2003

boys

1,975,349 boys got a published name in 2003; 1 in 13,718 of them was named Donavon, which outranked 91.6% of the 12,761 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Donavon
  1. #1,069Tracy145
  2. #1,069Ulysses145
  3. #1,069Yisroel145
  4. #1,076Donavon144
  5. #1,076Denis144
  6. #1,076Javonte144
  7. #1,076Johnnie144
  8. #1,082Camryn143
  9. #1,082Dameon143
  10. #1,082Daylon143

Tied with 5 names at #1,076; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2002
Risers
  1. ↑ 790Maddox#1,372 → #582
  2. ↑ 762Jahir#1,571 → #809
  3. ↑ 519Yair#1,236 → #717
  4. ↑ 450Jamarion#1,094 → #644
  5. ↑ 413Aydan#1,154 → #741
Fallers
  1. ↓ 819Lisandro#898 → #1,717
  2. ↓ 621Shemar#970 → #1,591
  3. ↓ 362Jaheem#891 → #1,253
  4. ↓ 337Keandre#998 → #1,335
  5. ↓ 334Savion#568 → #902

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2003 →