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Havanna vs Havyn

American parents have registered 1,254 Havyns since 1880, against 634 Havannas. Havyn is still ahead, with 61 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Havanna against Havyn, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Havanna Havyn

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 32 years in which either name was published, Havyn for 25 years and Havanna for 7 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

Side by side

  Havanna Havyn
Total US births 6341,254
Most in one year 4375
Babies in 2025 1461
Estimated living today 6301,200
Median age today 1310
Peak year 20182022
Best rank 3,559th girls2,425th girls
Rank in 2025 7,491st2,778th
First recorded 19911997
Girls / boys 634 / 01,189 / 65

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 Havannas alive today are over 13; half the Havyns are over 10. That is 3 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: Havanna and Havyn.