Jatavious vs Jathan
American parents have registered 1,500 Jathans since 1880, against 576 Jataviouses. Jathan is still ahead, with 6 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Jatavious Jathan
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 54 years in which either name was published, Jathan for 50 years and Jatavious for 4 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.
Side by side
| Jatavious | Jathan | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 576 | 1,500 |
| Most in one year | 35 | 89 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | 6 |
| Estimated living today | 570 | 1,500 |
| Median age today | 20 | 18 |
| Peak year | 2008 | 2012 |
| Best rank | 3,221st boys | 1,697th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | 10,695th |
| First recorded | 1987 | 1971 |
| Girls / boys | 0 / 576 | 0 / 1,500 |
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 Jataviouses alive today are over 20; half the Jathans are over 18. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Jatavious Georgia (19.9×), Mississippi (18.2×), Alabama (8.6×)
- Jathan Texas (5.5×), California (2.9×), North Carolina (2.2×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
Compare something else
Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Jatavious and Jathan.