Cavan
7
Babies in 2024
-42%
10-year change
1998
Peak · 55
0%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Cavan
Cavan peaked among UK boys' names in the late 1990s (55 babies in 1998) and has remained in active use — 7 boys were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Cavan reached its peak in 1998, when 55 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #398 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 7 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 28 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 632 boys have been officially registered with the name Cavan in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 83 boys were registered with the name, starting from 12 in 2014 and ending at 7 in 2024.