Gavin

What Gavin means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Gavin yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #70 in 2015, #303 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Gavin?

US: Falling: down from #70 in 2015. England & Wales: Steady: #1024 in 2015, #934 now.

Biggest US share so far: 2008, when 11,752 boys got the name (#30 that year). First in the US records in 1913.

How common

• About 1 in 1,518 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 8,240 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 3,274 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in VT (4.95 per 1,000 boys), NH (2.66 per 1,000 boys), RI (2.24 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Gavin is #303 in the US and #934 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Gavin were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Kevin1,628 US · 157 E&W
• Cavan33 US · 9 E&W
• Kavon35 US
• Kavin27 US · 8 E&W
• Gavyn25 US
• Kaven23 US
• Kavan7 US · 8 E&W
• Cavin8 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Gavin

Boys

• Aidan#326“fire”^*
• Ivan#162Same root as John, possibly meaning “God is gracious”^*
• Tristan#309“riot”^*
• Bryce#357Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 2000, with 4,319 babies; 919 in 2025
• Aiden#62Variant of Aidan, meaning “fire”^*
• Ayden#257Variant of Aidan, meaning “fire”^*

For a sister

• Ashlynn#980Variant of Ashlyn, meaning “dream, vision”^*
• Allie#569Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #255 in 2015, #569 in 2025
• Aileen#799Variant of Eileen, possibly meaning “radiance, beauty”^*
• Kira#385Editor’s note Down from #361 in 2015 to #385 in 2025 in the US
• Keira#621“black, dark, little dark one”^*
• Ashlyn#972“dream, vision”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Irish & Celtic, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Gavin’s. Rank is US 2025.