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Favian vs Faviola

American parents have registered 2,845 Favians since 1880, against 1,995 Faviolas. Favian is still ahead, with 25 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Favian against Faviola, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Favian Faviola

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 61 years in which either name was published, Favian for 32 years and Faviola for 29 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Favian Faviola
Total US births 2,8451,995
Most in one year 11492
Babies in 2025 25under 5
Estimated living today 2,8001,900
Median age today 2232
Peak year 20061991
Best rank 1,391st boys1,628th girls
Rank in 2025 4,139thunranked
First recorded 19611966
Girls / boys 0 / 2,8451,995 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Faviolas alive today are over 32; half the Favians are over 22. That is 10 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Favian and Faviola.