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Faviola vs Favor

American parents have registered 1,995 Faviolas since 1880, against 656 Favors. But in 2025 it was Favor that was commoner, 39 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Faviola against Favor, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Faviola Favor

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 60 years in which either name was published, Faviola for 43 years and Favor for 17 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Faviola Favor
Total US births 1,995656
Most in one year 9241
Babies in 2025 under 539
Estimated living today 1,900650
Median age today 3210
Peak year 19912021
Best rank 1,628th girls4,413th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked4,546th
First recorded 19662002
Girls / boys 1,995 / 0517 / 139

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 Favors are over 10. That is 22 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: Faviola and Favor.