Cavan

I think that the name Cavan is a very nice name. Very handsome too. There is a guy that I really like named Cavan. He is very handsome, and tall (very). I just want to let people know that no names are ugly names. Every name is beautiful and unique just like the person that bears them.

Even uglier than Kevin.

My name is Cavan and I am a boy in the USA and was born in 2005. My mom found the name in a baby name book. I pronounce it (Cav-in).

I'm a girl named Cavan and I only recently learned that it was originally masculine. My mom named me after the county where her grandmother came from and I really like having the connection to my history. (I've never been one to conform to gender roles either).

I note that most of you who find the name offensive, stupid or just absurd are from Eire which is strange as in many countries, including England, children can be called after the place they were born. Example Devon for a boy's first name or Leicester and even the great Darwin. This would have been done with a sense of pride, for County Cavan is beautiful and full of charm.
Our other children have unusual names. 'Che' for our eldest boy and you from Eire should be aware that Che Guevara Lynch has roots from Eire with a grandfather by the name of Lynch who no doubt was responsible for Che's Irish Spirit and his true spirit of freedom. 'Trupti' is Asian and we called our daughter that as in India it means Satisfaction, which she truly was considering she spent the first two and a half hours in the operating theatre having her life saved. Plus it was the name of my good friend's daughter. He was a doctor who I worked with in theatre.
My wife and I were stuck for our last boy's name so I handed her a baby book of names we bought from a boot sale. She read through it then passed it to me. It had to be a slightly different name from that of the others and sure enough we had both picked Cavan separately as the only name we liked out of 500.
The boys and girls at school liked it and he was always called 'CAV' which he too liked. He is proud of his name as all children should be. For it is what the parents see when they first gaze into their newborns eyes that matters and nothing else.

Reminds me of caves and caravans.

We named our daughter Cavan. It was a name we picked out whether we had a boy or a girl. It is the county in Ireland where my husband's mother's family came from. We get loads of compliments on it here in Our Nation's Capital.

Poor little girl, I hope she has a pretty feminine middle name that she can go by when she realizes she has a very masculine boy's name.

I have a female cousin by this name, named after the place in Ireland where my aunt's maternal side of the family came from. A lot of us were a bit surprised when we heard the name, but we got used to it quickly, as both a girl's name and a person's name period. If I didn't know someone by this name, though, I might not be so willing to give it a pass.

What on earth is this "name" doing here? Not only is it a placename, it's the name of a place which is the butt of many jokes by Irish people from outside Cavan. If I met someone named Cavan I would have a hard time keeping a straight face. It's beyond ridiculous.

I see kids called Dallas, Cheyenne and Dakota all the time. I've even seen a London and Jefferson. Naming a kid this is no different.

I wouldn't call a child Cavan. That's like calling someone Dublin or Cork or Derry (Londonderry, same diff).