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Javion vs Javis

American parents have registered 6,900 Javions since 1880, against 874 Javises. Javion is still ahead, with 90 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Javion Javis

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 63 years in which either name was published, Javion for 32 years and Javis for 31 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Javion Javis
Total US births 6,900874
Most in one year 44832
Babies in 2025 906
Estimated living today 6,800830
Median age today 1531
Peak year 20081999
Best rank 575th boys2,722nd boys
Rank in 2025 1,778th10,695th
First recorded 19841935
Girls / boys 11 / 6,8895 / 869

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 Javises alive today are over 31; half the Javions are over 15. That is 16 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: Javion and Javis.