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Donovan

Pronounced /ˈdɒnəvɪn/

Rank in 2024
#505
Born in 2024
603
Peak year
2003 · #176
Origin
Not recorded

1880 to 2024

Cooling
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 603 boys were named Donovan, about 1 in every 2,845.
  • It peaked in 2003 with 2,211 babies, ranked #176.
  • It first shows up in the records in 1900.
  • 61,070 boys have been named Donovan since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Donovan per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. <0.1
    Greatest
  2. <0.1
    Silent
  3. <0.1
    Boomers
  4. 0.2
    Gen X
  5. 0.4
    Millennials
  6. 0.9
    Gen Z
  7. 0.5
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 952 babies, 0.06 per 1,000. Silent: 1,452 babies, 0.07 per 1,000. Boomers: 1,703 babies, 0.05 per 1,000. Gen X: 5,389 babies, 0.20 per 1,000. Millennials: 11,825 babies, 0.39 per 1,000. Gen Z: 28,230 babies, 0.90 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 11,511 babies, 0.53 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

From Irish Ó Donndubháin (“descendant of (a person named) brown & black”), from donn (“brown”) and dubh (“black”).

  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
Origin
Not recorded
Say it
/ˈdɒnəvɪn/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Donovan, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Other spellings

  • GirlBoyUncommon

    Donavan

    Rank
    #3,244
    Born '24
    37
    Origin
    —
    1880peak 20022024
  • GirlBoyUncommon

    Donavon

    Rank
    #8,141
    Born '24
    10
    Origin
    —
    1880peak 20002024
  • GirlBoyUncommon

    Donavin

    Rank
    unranked
    Born '24
    0
    Origin
    —
    1880peak 20052024