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Gavino vs Gavyn

American parents have registered 5,339 Gavyns since 1880, against 1,782 Gavinos. Gavyn is still ahead, with 25 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Gavino against Gavyn, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Gavino Gavyn

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 105 years in which either name was published, Gavino for 76 years and Gavyn for 29 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Gavino Gavyn
Total US births 1,7825,339
Most in one year 43395
Babies in 2025 2025
Estimated living today 1,5005,300
Median age today 2617
Peak year 20082008
Best rank 2,788th boys631st boys
Rank in 2025 4,857th4,139th
First recorded 19151986
Girls / boys 0 / 1,782120 / 5,219

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 Gavinos alive today are over 26; half the Gavyns are over 17. That is 9 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: Gavino and Gavyn.