Kaven
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kəvən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kaven is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 382K(measured from records)
- CACanada≈1 in 183K
- JMJamaica≈1 in 208K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 137 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 183K (inferred from the name graph)
870 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Canada, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kaven counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 870 | 1 in 382K | 797 | Kaven | 137 |
| PH Philippines | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 464K | — | Kaven | 20 |
| CA Canada | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 183K | 1 | Kaven | 88 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 221K | — | Kaven | 21 |
| BR Brazil | 118 | 1 in 1.8M | 118 | — | — |
| PT Portugal | ≈46 est. | ≈1 in 225K | listed | — | — |
| SG Singapore | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 219K | — | Kaven | 10 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 208K | — | Kaven | 7 |
870 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- August von Kavenb. 1827DEGerman civil engineer (1827–1891)
- Herbert von Kavenb. 1908DEGerman mathematician
- Wolfgang Kavenb. 1940DEGerman actor and voice actor
- Joseph KavenPGPapua New Guinea physician
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 25 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 149 | #116,829 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 147 | #123,144 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 139 | #116,123 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Kaven?
- A machine transcription gives /kəvən/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Kaven a male or female name?
- Kaven is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Kaven have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 870 people named Kaven, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kaven.
- How common is the name Kaven?
- In the United States, the national register counted 870 people named Kaven in 2020, about 1 in 382 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kaven?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kavenThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kaven”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.