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Javari vs Javion

American parents have registered 6,900 Javions since 1880, against 1,347 Javaris. Javion is still ahead, with 90 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Javari against Javion, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Javari Javion

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 41 years in which either name was published, Javion for 38 years and Javari for 3 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Javari Javion
Total US births 1,3476,900
Most in one year 71448
Babies in 2025 5690
Estimated living today 1,3006,800
Median age today 1315
Peak year 20242008
Best rank 2,098th boys575th boys
Rank in 2025 2,421st1,778th
First recorded 19871984
Girls / boys 0 / 1,34711 / 6,889

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 Javions alive today are over 15; half the Javaris are over 13. That is 2 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Javari Javion
England and Wales 93

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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