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Javaughn vs Javion

American parents have registered 6,900 Javions since 1880, against 947 Javaughns. Javion is still ahead, with 90 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Javaughn 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 48 years in which either name was published, Javion for 32 years and Javaughn for 16 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Javaughn Javion
Total US births 9476,900
Most in one year 52448
Babies in 2025 890
Estimated living today 9306,800
Median age today 2315
Peak year 19972008
Best rank 1,814th boys575th boys
Rank in 2025 8,910th1,778th
First recorded 19731984
Girls / boys 0 / 94711 / 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 Javaughns alive today are over 23; half the Javions are over 15. That is 8 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 Javaughn Javion
England and Wales 33

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: Javaughn and Javion.