girls:
5 births since 1997
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
8.2k births since 1919
#1299 (72nd percentile)
overall:
8.2k births since 1919
#2980 (61st percentile)
The name Donavan is the #2,980 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 8,211 recorded births since 1919. This represents the 61.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 61.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,299 (71.7% percentile) for all time with 8,206 births since 1919. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1997.
Donavan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1919 (1919 for boys and 1997 for girls). Birth data for Donavan is available in 103 out of the 105 years between 1919 and 2023 (103 years for boys and 1 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Donavan has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Donavan reached its peak popularity in 2002, achieving the 31.4% percentile (ranked #558) with 131 births per million. The name was most common in 2002, with 131 births per million (ranked 31.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2005, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Donavan ranks #861 for boys (5.5% percentile) with 30 births per million, which is 23.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Donavan reached its peak popularity in 1997, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #863) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1997, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1997.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Donavan".
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Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Donavan. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 36.7% confident that Donavan is pronounced as DAH-nuh-vuhn, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DOH-nuh-vuhn, at 16.3% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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