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Javon vs Javonne

American parents have registered 18,406 Javons since 1880, against 679 Javonnes. Javon is still ahead, with 169 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Javon against Javonne, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Javon Javonne

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 62 years in which either name was published, Javon for 61 years and Javonne for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Javon Javonne
Total US births 18,406679
Most in one year 75531
Babies in 2025 169under 5
Estimated living today 18,000660
Median age today 2333
Peak year 20011985
Best rank 357th boys3,983rd girls
Rank in 2025 1,196thunranked
First recorded 19601966
Girls / boys 760 / 17,646361 / 318

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 Javonnes alive today are over 33; half the Javons are over 23. That is 10 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: Javon and Javonne.