Ravin
Feminine · “raven”
Ravin is given to both — 994 girls and 247 boys since 1880. See other names given to both
The raven is a battle bird in Old English verse. It appears with the wolf and the eagle as one of the beasts that gather where fighting is about to happen — a fixed poetic formula, repeated across the surviving poems, grim and entirely matter-of-fact. Ravin is that word with its second vowel changed, which softens the look without touching the sound.
How old is the name Ravin?
Ravin first appears in US birth records in 1977 — 48 years ago. The typical Ravin alive today was born around 1996, making them about 29 years old. About 1,000 people named Ravin are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Ravin most popular?
Ravin peaked in 1993, reaching #2241 nationally. Today it ranks #13208, 10,967 places below that high. See the whole 1993 chart.
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Where it comes from
From hræfn to Ravin
The story of Ravin
The raven had a double life in early northern Europe: a carrion bird that followed armies, and a creature of unusual intelligence associated with the god Odin, who kept two of them as informants. English took the word as a surname and, in the twentieth century, as a first name — given overwhelmingly to daughters, which is a striking reversal for a word so bound up with warfare. Ravin appears in American records from 1977 and peaked in the early 1990s.
Meaningscholars disagree
raven
If the name is read as the bird, the Old English is hræfn and the word is ancient, shared across the Germanic languages. If it is read as a form of Raven the modern name, the same applies. There is a third possibility: Ravin resembles the Hindi Ravi, the sun, and some American families may have arrived from that direction, though the record cannot say.
How the name formed
- hræfn
- Raven
- Ravin
Related forms: Hrafn · Rabe
Pronouncing Ravin
RAY-vin
Two syllables, stress on the first. It is said identically to Raven; the i in the second syllable sits where the vowel is reduced to almost nothing, so the change is entirely visual.
Nicknames for Ravin
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1977
- Most girls named
- 199358 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2241reached in 1993
- Change vs 2024
- −14.3%6 in 2025, from 7
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Ravin in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Hrafn in Old Norse — related form
- Rabe in German — related form
Ravins among us
people named Ravin are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 267,878 born in 2025 was named Ravin
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Ravin
- #13208
- Ravin on the 2025 chart
- #881
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Ravin went to 6 girls in 2025, but Ravyn and Ravynn are the same name said out loud. Together the 3 spellings went to 79, which makes it the 881st most-given girls’ name of the year — 12,327 places above the chart.
- Ravyn66
- Ravynn7
- Ravin6
About 1 girl in 20,345 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 267,878 for Ravin itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Marysol test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Ravin's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Marysol climbed just as high around 1970, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Marysol's path sketches the road Ravin is walking now.
Ravin sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Ravin beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Ravin in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The bird behind it is one of the most intelligent animals on earth and has a large literary history.
- Five letters, two syllables, and readable on sight.
- It works for a child of either sex, and the record shows it doing so.
- Raven is the standard spelling and will be written instead constantly.
- The bird carries associations with death and battle that a child may meet in reading.
- The change is inaudible, so the spelling has to be dictated every time.
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Frequently asked
- How many Ravins are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,000 people named Ravin are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Ravin?
- Ravin is one of 3 recorded spellings. Ravyn is the more common one — 66 births in 2025 against 6 for Ravin.
- How popular is the name Ravin in 2025?
- Ravin ranks #13208 among US girl names in 2025, with 6 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Ravin?
- About 1 in every 267,878 US girls born in 2025 was named Ravin — 6 in all.
- Will my child share the name Ravin with classmates?
- Ravin will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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