girls:
394 births since 1977
#5322 (7th percentile)
boys:
186.7k births since 1913
#194 (96th percentile)
overall:
187.1k births since 1913
#411 (95th percentile)
The name Gavin is the #411 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 187,125 recorded births since 1913. This represents the 94.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 94.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #194 (95.8% percentile) for all time with 186,731 births since 1913. For girls, it ranks #5,322 (6.9% percentile) for all time with 394 births since 1977.
Gavin first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1913 (1913 for boys and 1977 for girls). Birth data for Gavin is available in 109 out of the 111 years between 1913 and 2023 (109 years for boys and 31 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 Gavin has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Gavin reached its peak popularity in 2008, achieving the 96.8% percentile (ranked #30) with 5,389 births per million. The name was most common in 2008, with 5,389 births per million (ranked 96.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2010, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Gavin ranks #228 for boys (75.1% percentile) with 826 births per million, which is 15.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Gavin reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 5.3% percentile (ranked #887) with 27 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 27 births per million (ranked 5.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2011, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Gavin ranks #944 for girls (0.3% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 16.8% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Gavin".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Gavin. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 67.3% confident that Gavin is pronounced as GA-vihn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is GA-vuhn, at 18.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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