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Javion vs Javontae

American parents have registered 6,900 Javions since 1880, against 1,640 Javontaes. Javion is still ahead, with 90 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Javion Javontae

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 40 years in which either name was published, Javion for 35 years and Javontae for 5 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Javion Javontae
Total US births 6,9001,640
Most in one year 44899
Babies in 2025 9025
Estimated living today 6,8001,600
Median age today 1519
Peak year 20082007
Best rank 575th boys1,576th boys
Rank in 2025 1,778th4,139th
First recorded 19841989
Girls / boys 11 / 6,8890 / 1,640

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 Javontaes alive today are over 19; half the Javions are over 15. That is 4 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 Javion Javontae
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: Javion and Javontae.