Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Gavin” in the USA?

Number of people named “Gavin” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Gavin” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Gavin” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Gavin” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Gavin” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Gavin” by birth year

This chart shows how “Gavin” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1913 5 0.000004397 5 -100%
1914 10 0.00000706 10 -100%
1915 9 0.000004912 9 -100%
1917 9 0.000004485 9 -100%
1919 16 0.000007582 16 -100%
1920 12 0.000005304 12 -100%
1921 15 0.000006425 15 -100%
1922 12 0.000005242 12 -100%
1923 12 0.000005212 12 -100%
1924 11 0.000004619 11 -100%
1925 14 0.000006 14 -100%
1926 15 0.000006533 15 -100%
1927 13 0.000005605 13 -100%
1928 13 0.00000575 13 -100%
1929 7 0.000003193 7 -100%
1930 9 0.000004048 9 -100%
1931 13 0.000006178 13 -100%
1932 15 0.000007105 15 -100%
1933 13 0.000006502 13 -100%
1934 5 0.000002408 5 -100%
1935 14 0.000006699 14 -100%
1936 9 0.000004332 9 -100%
1937 15 0.00000704 15 -100%
1938 10 0.00000452 10 -100%
1939 10 0.000004538 10 -100%
1940 13 0.000005646 13 -100%
1941 17 0.000006977 17 -100%
1942 17 0.000006223 17 -100%
1943 6 0.000002126 6 -100%
1944 13 0.000004833 13 -100%
1945 12 0.000004523 12 -100%
1946 22 0.000006885 22 -100%
1947 28 0.000007773 28 -100%
1948 24 0.000006951 24 -100%
1949 25 0.000007174 25 -100%
1950 27 0.000007707 27 -100%
1951 30 0.000008144 30 -100%
1952 38 0.000010005 38 -100%
1953 42 0.000010899 42 -100%
1954 76 0.000019092 76 -100%
1955 61 0.000015193 61 -100%
1956 65 0.000015765 65 -100%
1957 37 0.000008805 37 -100%
1958 71 0.000017175 71 -100%
1959 57 0.000013709 57 -100%
1960 100 0.000024074 100 -100%
1961 114 0.000027521 114 -100%
1962 154 0.000038163 154 -100%
1963 159 0.00004017 159 -100%
1964 152 0.000039099 152 -100%
1965 161 0.000044408 161 -100%
1966 147 0.000042294 147 -100%
1967 173 0.000050959 173 -100%
1968 189 0.000055943 189 -100%
1969 223 0.000064167 223 -100%
1970 208 0.000057673 208 -100%
1971 218 0.000063513 218 -100%
1972 174 0.000055361 174 -100%
1973 232 0.0000769 232 -100%
1974 270 0.000088816 270 -100%
1975 261 0.000086441 261 -100%
1976 318 0.000104802 318 -100%
1977 308 0.000096962 5 303 -97%
1978 366 0.000115317 366 -100%
1979 317 0.000095281 317 -100%
1980 350 0.000101611 350 -100%
1981 492 0.000142222 492 -100%
1982 477 0.000135976 477 -100%
1983 690 0.00019923 690 -100%
1984 518 0.000148477 5 513 -98%
1985 522 0.000146255 522 -100%
1986 537 0.000150967 537 -100%
1987 637 0.000176669 7 630 -98%
1988 549 0.000148577 5 544 -98%
1989 629 0.000163613 629 -100%
1990 860 0.000217585 860 -100%
1991 854 0.000219241 5 849 -99%
1992 1067 0.000277772 1067 -100%
1993 951 0.000252236 6 945 -99%
1994 1121 0.000301534 1121 -100%
1995 1193 0.000325764 1193 -100%
1996 1638 0.000449112 5 1633 -99%
1997 2763 0.000762049 6 2757 -100%
1998 3204 0.000871077 9 3195 -99%
1999 3671 0.000993809 13 3658 -99%
2000 4696 0.00124236 10 4686 -100%
2001 5272 0.001408349 12 5260 -100%
2002 6967 0.001863686 16 6951 -100%
2003 8784 0.002310169 20 8764 -100%
2004 8665 0.002267777 55 8610 -99%
2005 9357 0.002433648 17 9340 -100%
2006 10500 0.002654069 21 10479 -100%
2007 11889 0.002973973 26 11863 -100%
2008 11784 0.002997966 33 11751 -99%
2009 10754 0.002815054 13 10741 -100%
2010 9638 0.002607868 12 9626 -100%
2011 9033 0.002469523 17 9016 -100%
2012 8275 0.002262557 15 8260 -100%
2013 7437 0.002039956 16 7421 -100%
2014 6632 0.001789349 10 6622 -100%
2015 5798 0.001566641 5 5793 -100%
2016 4948 0.001348707 5 4943 -100%
2017 4159 0.001162968 4159 -100%
2018 3480 0.00098979 7 3473 -100%
2019 3017 0.000869219 5 3012 -100%
2020 2588 0.000774716 2588 -100%
2021 2215 0.000653788 2215 -100%
2022 1801 0.000532346 5 1796 -99%
2023 1523 0.000459955 9 1514 -99%
2024 1380 0.000414601 1380 -100%

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