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Kevan

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Kevan is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 10 births. Its best rank was 802nd, in 1956.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
100.00% of boys
Peak year
198688 births
Best rank
#802in 1956
Since 1945
3,479people given the name
Babies named Kevan, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

3,479 boys have been named Kevan in the United States since 1945, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1986, with 88 births.

It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1979, and the 1980s alone account for 21%. It has spent 11 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadeboys named Kevan
1940s48
1950s625
1960s557
1970s533
1980s714
1990s541
2000s289
2010s128
2020s44

In 1986, its biggest year

Kevan was the 986th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1986 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and David. See all of 1986.

Names that rose and fell with Kevan

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.