girls:
52 births since 1952
#5664 (1st percentile)
boys:
3.5k births since 1945
#2125 (54th percentile)
overall:
3.5k births since 1945
#4610 (40th percentile)
The name Kevan is the #4,610 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,521 recorded births since 1945. This represents the 40.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 40.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,125 (53.6% percentile) for all time with 3,469 births since 1945. For girls, it ranks #5,664 (0.9% percentile) for all time with 52 births since 1952.
Kevan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1945 (1945 for boys and 1952 for girls). Birth data for Kevan is available in 78 out of the 79 years between 1945 and 2023 (78 years for boys and 6 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 Kevan has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Kevan reached its peak popularity in 1956, achieving the 12.9% percentile (ranked #557) with 41 births per million. The name was most common in 1986, with 46 births per million (ranked 11.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Kevan ranks #910 for boys (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 7.2% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Kevan reached its peak popularity in 1953, achieving the 1.2% percentile (ranked #687) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1953, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1985.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kevan".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Kevan. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 71.4% confident that Kevan is pronounced as KEH-vuhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KEE-vuhn, at 28.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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