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Gavin
Pronounced /ˈɡævɪn/
Rank in 2024
#254
Born in 2024
1,380
Peak year
2007 · #32
Origin
Celtic
1880 to 2024
CoolingIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 1,380 boys were named Gavin, about 1 in every 1,243.
- It peaked in 2007 with 11,863 babies, ranked #32.
- It first shows up in the records in 1913.
- 188,131 boys have been named Gavin since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Gavin per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- 0.1Gen X1965–80
- 0.4Millennials1981–96
- 4.0Gen Z1997–12
- 2.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 153 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Silent: 211 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Boomers: 1,282 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Gen X: 3,910 babies, 0.14 per 1,000. Millennials: 12,702 babies, 0.42 per 1,000. Gen Z: 124,957 babies, 3.98 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 44,916 babies, 2.07 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
Medieval variant of Gawain, the name of an Arthurian knight, first recorded as Old French Gauvain. The form Gavin survived in Scotland and spread to other English-speaking countries in the 1960s. Doublet of Gawain.
- A male given name from the Celtic languages.
- Origin
- Celtic
- Say it
- /ˈɡævɪn/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Gavin, CC BY-SA 4.0.