girls:
120 births since 1999
#5596 (2nd percentile)
boys:
5.2k births since 1986
#1666 (64th percentile)
overall:
5.3k births since 1986
#3758 (51st percentile)
The name Gavyn is the #3,758 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,290 recorded births since 1986. This represents the 51.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 51.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,666 (63.7% percentile) for all time with 5,170 births since 1986. For girls, it ranks #5,596 (2.1% percentile) for all time with 120 births since 1999.
Gavyn first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1986 (1986 for boys and 1999 for girls). Birth data for Gavyn is available in 35 out of the 38 years between 1986 and 2023 (35 years for boys and 15 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 Gavyn has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Gavyn reached its peak popularity in 2008, achieving the 39.1% percentile (ranked #553) with 179 births per million. The name was most common in 2008, with 179 births per million (ranked 39.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2011, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Gavyn ranks #880 for boys (3.4% percentile) with 20 births per million, which is 11.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Gavyn reached its peak popularity in 2009, achieving the 1.1% percentile (ranked #948) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 2009, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2019.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Gavyn".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Gavyn. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 84.4% confident that Gavyn is pronounced as GAY-vihn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is GA-vihn, at 15.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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