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Javien vs Javion

American parents have registered 6,900 Javions since 1880, against 1,726 Javiens. Javion is still ahead, with 90 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Javien 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

Javion has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1984 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1996, when Javien had 15 and Javion had 41.

Side by side

  Javien Javion
Total US births 1,7266,900
Most in one year 126448
Babies in 2025 2390
Estimated living today 1,7006,800
Median age today 1615
Peak year 20082008
Best rank 1,355th boys575th boys
Rank in 2025 4,396th1,778th
First recorded 19891984
Girls / boys 0 / 1,72611 / 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.

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: Javien and Javion.