Given name
Flavian
“having yellow hair”
Flavian is used as a given name. One Latin interpretation is “having yellow hair.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Latin interpretation is “having yellow hair.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Latin.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1915. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Flavian through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 25
- 25 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1924
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1953. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 10 in 1924. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 127 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Flavian’s family of names
Flavian has a related form in Flavio. In English usage, Flavian has a conventional equivalent in the Portuguese form Flaviano. Flavian has a related form in Flaviano.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 12
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Flaviovariant
- Flabiovariant
- Flaviusvariant
- Flavelvariant
- Flabianvariant
- Flabienvariant
- Flaveanvariant
- Flaviuvariant
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People named Flavian
- Flavian of Constantinople5th-century Archbishop of Constantinople400–449
- Flavian I of Antioch4th-century Patriarch of Antioch320–404
- Flavian II of AntiochPatriarch of Antioch401–518
- Flavian Matindi KassalaTanzanian Roman Catholic bishopborn 1967
- Flavian GorodetskyExarchs of Georgia (1898–1901)1841–1915
- Flavian AponsoSri Lankan cricketerborn 1952
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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