Donovan
Recorded for both sexesGen Z2025 rank
#496
up +10 places
2025 births
609
up +5 births
All-time births
61,684
1% of them in 2025
More common than
99%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 2003
- 2,211 births
- Best rank
- #176
- in 2003
- First recorded
- 1900
- #983 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1997
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 125 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 20032,211#176Peak
- 20052,186#185
- 20042,055#187
- 20072,044#197
- 20061,967#198
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #176 in 2003 · peak births 2,211 in 2003
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 100% boys■ 0% girls
61,684 boys · 220 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Donovan has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.