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Javarius vs Javion

American parents have registered 6,900 Javions since 1880, against 840 Javariuses. Javion is still ahead, with 90 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Javarius 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 42 years in which either name was published, Javion for 38 years and Javarius for 4 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Javarius Javion
Total US births 8406,900
Most in one year 48448
Babies in 2025 690
Estimated living today 8206,800
Median age today 2215
Peak year 20072008
Best rank 2,564th boys575th boys
Rank in 2025 10,695th1,778th
First recorded 19851984
Girls / boys 0 / 84011 / 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 Javariuses alive today are over 22; half the Javions are over 15. That is 7 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: Javarius and Javion.