# Tavon (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/tavon/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 4,147 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 4,069 / 78 (2% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 9, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From ta- + -von.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 5 | 10,447 |
| 1979 | 6 | 10,089 |
| 1980 | 7 | 8,999 |
| 1988 | 13 | 6,254 |
| 1989 | 6 | 12,227 |
| 1990 | 6 | 12,808 |
| 1991 | 6 | 12,984 |
| 1992 | 5 | 15,377 |
| 1993 | 6 | 13,284 |
| 1997 | 7 | 11,968 |
| 1998 | 6 | 13,945 |
| 2002 | 5 | 17,844 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 73 | 1,922 |
| 2012 | 55 | 2,355 |
| 2013 | 51 | 2,455 |
| 2014 | 45 | 2,702 |
| 2015 | 53 | 2,428 |
| 2016 | 36 | 3,217 |
| 2017 | 35 | 3,307 |
| 2018 | 39 | 3,047 |
| 2019 | 35 | 3,337 |
| 2020 | 34 | 3,338 |
| 2021 | 38 | 3,171 |
| 2022 | 32 | 3,605 |
| 2023 | 23 | 4,597 |
| 2024 | 32 | 3,595 |
| 2025 | 19 | 5,177 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 4 | 2,357 |
| 2010 | 5 | 3,332 |

## People named Tavon

- Tavon Austin, American football player (born 1990)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.