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Javier vs Javonni

American parents have registered 108,463 Javiers since 1880, against 613 Javonnis. Javier is still ahead, with 1,252 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Javier against Javonni, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Javier Javonni

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

Javier has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1917 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2022, when Javier had 1,463 and Javonni had 48.

Side by side

  Javier Javonni
Total US births 108,463613
Most in one year 2,64648
Babies in 2025 1,25229
Estimated living today 102,000610
Median age today 269
Peak year 20012022
Best rank 149th boys3,053rd boys
Rank in 2025 274th4,396th
First recorded 19171990
Girls / boys 494 / 107,96990 / 523

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 Javiers alive today are over 26; half the Javonnis are over 9. That is 17 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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