Gavin
13,096 people in the United States were counted with the surname Gavin in the 2020 census, making it the 2,685th most common in the country. That is about one person in 22,800.
By the numbers
- People
- 13,096
- Rank
- 2,685th
- How common
- 1 in 22,800
- Per 100,000
- 4.4
Where the name comes from
Origin a patronymic
Medieval variant of Gawain, the name of an Arthurian knight, first recorded as. The form Gavin survived in Scotland and spread to other English-speaking countries in the 1960s.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Gavin described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Gavin
- John Gavin (1931–2018)American film actor and former Ambassador to Mexico
- James M. Gavin (1907–1990)former lieutenant general, United States Army
- Erica Gavin (born 1947)American actress
- Oliver Gavin (born 1972)British racing driver
- Andy Gavin (born 1970)American video game programmer
People named Gavin with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Also a first name
Gavin has been given to 189,665 American babies as a first name since 1913, peaking in 2007. See it as a given name.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.