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Javier vs Javonta

American parents have registered 108,463 Javiers since 1880, against 872 Javontas. Javier is still ahead, with 1,252 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Javier Javonta

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 1995, when Javier had 2,261 and Javonta had 57.

Side by side

  Javier Javonta
Total US births 108,463872
Most in one year 2,64657
Babies in 2025 1,2526
Estimated living today 102,000850
Median age today 2625
Peak year 20011995
Best rank 149th boys1,603rd boys
Rank in 2025 274th10,695th
First recorded 19171986
Girls / boys 494 / 107,9690 / 872

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: Javier and Javonta.