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Javis vs Javonte

American parents have registered 3,958 Javontes since 1880, against 874 Javises. Javonte is still ahead, with 36 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Javis against Javonte, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Javis Javonte

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, Javonte for 37 years and Javis for 26 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Javis Javonte
Total US births 8743,958
Most in one year 32241
Babies in 2025 636
Estimated living today 8303,900
Median age today 3124
Peak year 19991992
Best rank 2,722nd boys683rd boys
Rank in 2025 10,695th3,240th
First recorded 19351983
Girls / boys 5 / 86939 / 3,919

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 Javontes are over 24. That is 7 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: Javis and Javonte.