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Javarius vs Javon

American parents have registered 18,406 Javons since 1880, against 840 Javariuses. Javon is still ahead, with 169 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Javarius against Javon, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Javarius Javon

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

Javon has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1960 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1999, when Javarius had 40 and Javon had 583.

Side by side

  Javarius Javon
Total US births 84018,406
Most in one year 48755
Babies in 2025 6169
Estimated living today 82018,000
Median age today 2223
Peak year 20072001
Best rank 2,564th boys357th boys
Rank in 2025 10,695th1,196th
First recorded 19851960
Girls / boys 0 / 840760 / 17,646

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.

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 Javon.