Gaven
A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 29 babies a year in the US.
Gaven by the numbers
Gaven was given to 29 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 282 babies in 2003, so it is a 2000s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Gaven
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
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Other names in the records within a letter or two of Gaven. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
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