Tavis
Last seen for girls in 1977 at #8,444 · #8,243 for boys in 2025, 9 births
Given to boys 99.7% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1977 · 73 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,210since 1963
Tavis over time
Rank among boys' names. Tavis has never cracked the top 1,000 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 | — | #8,243 | 9 | |
| 2024 | — | #10,938 | 6 | |
| 2023 | — | #8,255 | 9 | |
| 2022 | — | #12,330 | 5 | |
| 2021 | — | #8,166 | 9 | |
| 2020 | — | #7,034 | 11 | |
| 2019 | — | #7,643 | 10 | |
| 2018 | — | #5,770 | 15 | |
| 2017 | — | #7,546 | 10 | |
| 2016 | — | #8,816 | 8 | |
| 2015 | — | #5,999 | 14 | |
| 2014 | — | #7,048 | 11 | |
| 2013 | — | #4,064 | 24 | |
| 2012 | — | #3,371 | 32 | |
| 2011 | — | #4,659 | 20 | |
| 2010 | — | #4,241 | 23 | |
| 2009 | — | #3,721 | 28 | |
| 2008 | — | #3,646 | 29 | |
| 2007 | — | #2,564 | 48 | |
| 2006 | — | #2,449 | 50 | |
| 2005 | — | #2,614 | 42 | |
| 2004 | — | #2,316 | 49 | |
| 2003 | — | #2,674 | 37 | |
| 2002 | — | #2,504 | 39 | |
| 2001 | — | #2,117 | 49 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,758 | 63 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,457 | 79 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,465 | 76 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,693 | 58 | |
| 1996 | — | #1,817 | 50 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,955 | 43 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,734 | 51 | |
| 1993 | — | #1,524 | 60 | |
| 1992 | — | #1,731 | 49 | |
| 1991 | — | #1,652 | 50 | |
| 1990 | — | #2,086 | 35 | |
| 1989 | — | #2,359 | 28 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,706 | 41 | |
| 1987 | — | #1,864 | 34 | |
| 1986 | — | #1,962 | 30 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,569 | 41 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,606 | 37 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,205 | 57 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,395 | 46 | |
| 1981 | — | #1,294 | 51 | |
| 1980 | — | #1,258 | 54 | |
| 1979 | — | #1,100 | 66 | |
| 1978 | — | #1,109 | 62 | |
| 1977 | #8,444 | 6 | #1,007 | 73 |
| 1976 | — | #1,030 | 65 | |
| 1975 | — | #1,146 | 54 | |
| 1974 | — | #1,269 | 44 | |
| 1973 | — | #1,201 | 47 | |
| 1972 | — | #1,453 | 34 | |
| 1971 | — | #1,415 | 36 | |
| 1970 | — | #1,939 | 21 | |
| 1969 | — | #1,728 | 23 | |
| 1968 | — | #2,030 | 16 | |
| 1967 | — | #2,030 | 15 | |
| 1966 | — | #3,537 | 6 | |
| 1965 | — | #2,476 | 11 | |
| 1964 | — | #2,854 | 9 | |
| 1963 | — | #3,044 | 8 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Tavis! It came in at #3,044, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2022, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Tavis
- 2,695 spots since 2024 (#10,938 → #8,243)
- 1,209 spots since 2020 (#7,034 → #8,243)
- 2,244 spots since 2015 (#5,999 → #8,243)
- Debuted 1963
- Peaked 1977 at #1,007 (73 births)
- Births halved by 1986, 9 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 22,510 boys born in 1977 were named Tavis (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 189,786 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 24.9% of all boys named Tavis (551) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 88 | #1,728 (1969) | #2,528 |
| 1970s | 502 | #1,007 (1977) | #1,267 |
| 1980s | 419 | #1,205 (1983) | #1,622 |
| 1990s | 551 | #1,457 (1999) | #1,711 |
| 2000s | 434 | #1,758 (2000) | #2,636 |
| 2010s | 167 | #3,371 (2012) | #5,916 |
| 2020s | 49 | #7,034 (2020) | #9,161 |
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.
Tavis in 1979
Top boys' names in 1979
More about 1979
boys
1,721,536 boys got a published name in 1979; 1 in 26,084 of them was named Tavis, which outranked 84.4% of the 7,071 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,089Nikolaus67
- #1,089Rasheen67
- #1,089Rosendo67
- #1,100Tavis66
- #1,100Cristian66
- #1,100Jelani66
- #1,100Kamal66
- #1,108Darrius65
- #1,108Detrick65
- #1,108Luciano65
Tied with 7 names at #1,100; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.