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The first name 
Donavin

Donavin is a first name for boys.

When two boys called Donavin meet...

… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Donavin is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 boys have been named Donavin. In the SmartGenius ranking, Donavin is #3,017 on the list of most common boys names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Donavin.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Donavin

Donavin -
ahead of the curve

In fact, the name Donavin did not fit the trend of the last century. Young parents in the 2000s began to change that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Donavin seemed to be more popular than ever in 2003. Although the name never ranked higher than #1,010, 146 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Donavin, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Donavin was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Donavin in 2022 – originality welcome!

In 2022, expectant parents chose the yet rare name Donavin a few times. Among all newborn boys it ranked #4,181 - with a total of 20 baby boys. This means, as you can see above, that the name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it supposedly didn't appear at all for many years - giving boys with this first name a sheen of something particularly contemporary and special.

Donavin -
at home in half of America

The odds that a man or boy named Donavin lives in your home state are about the same as betting on heads or tails in a coin toss. This boy’s name is quite popular, but not equally so throughout the entire USA. You can meet boys and men with the name Donavin in 21 states – which is obviously nearly every second of all 50 states in the USA, for example in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida or Georgia. In relation to the number of residents, the most men and boys with the first name Donavin live in Michigan – here, one in 55,178 bears this name. In comparison, if we look at all living men and boys in the whole country, only one in 196,381 will turn around if you call his first name Donavin.

Donavin has 7 letters 
and begins with a D

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter D is a quite popular first letter for boys’ names. That’s because 8.5% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters J and A are more common for boys' names.

With seven letters, the name Donavin has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

Therefore: As 8.5% of all boys' names start with a D, this initial letter occurs nearly 2.5-times as often as all 26 letters on average – and the most common one of all the boys’ names starting with D is David.

Other names with 
D, o, n, a, v, i and n

If you take all the letters in the name Donavin – D, o, n, a, v, i and n – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Davionn or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Donavin

If your name is Donavin and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Donavin

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Donavin, you can simply say:

Dinosaur

Orange

Nut

Apple

Violin

Igloo

Nut

This is how the name Donavin is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Donavin in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Donavin

Donavin

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Donavin

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Donavin is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

D
O
N
A
V
I
N

Have you ever waved the name Donavin

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

D
O
N
A
V
I
N

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Donavin sounds like this: