first name
GAVYN
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 4,539 people named Gavyn, 74.7% reported their origin as White, 9.5% as Hispanic or Latino and 7.1% as two or more races. 96.9% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Gavyn peaked in 2008, when 395 babies got the name.
At least 5,339 babies have been given the name since 1986. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Gavyn by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2000s, when it ranked #1,615. The largest share of babies named Gavyn, 74.1%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Gavyn is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Gavyn has been most common in Utah (2.2×), Indiana (2.1×), and Oklahoma (1.9×), and least common in New York (0.45×).
3,621 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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