Tavian is a male first name.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Tavian 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 Tavian. In the SmartGenius ranking, Tavian is #2,796 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 Tavian.
Tavian is a phenomenon of Generation X and Y. Previously, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Schoolkids of the early 20th century probably didn't have classmates named Tavian - until this very name unexpectedly cried out for attention and peaked in popularity at rank number 812 in 1998. Although it has never reached the top 100 list, this boys' name seems to have been in vogue for a while, which makes Tavian really in tune with his generation.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Tavian was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
16 babies were named Tavian in 2022 - that's 1 in 10,089,125 newborn boys. With this number, the boys' name Tavian ranked 4,845 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
You may not know anyone named Tavian, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 26 states are home to men and boys named Tavian. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few men and boys named Tavian living in one state or another. If your name is Tavian and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Iowa, which has the most people named Tavian relative to the population, you still have to ask 35,459 men and boys their names before you hear Tavian as an answer just once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter T is a particularly popular initial letter for boys’ names. That’s because 6.3% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for boys’ names are J, A and D.
With six letters, the name Tavian is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven 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.
With 6.3% of all boys' names that begin with the letter T, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. And Thomas is the boys’ name starting with T, which is the most common of all.
If your name is Tavian 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...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Tavian, you can simply say:
Tiger
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Violin
Igloo
Apple
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Tavian
Tavian
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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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.
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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. Tavian sounds like this:
