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Javon vs Javonni

American parents have registered 18,406 Javons since 1880, against 613 Javonnis. Javon is still ahead, with 169 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Javon Javonni

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

Javon has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1960 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2022, when Javon had 174 and Javonni had 48.

Side by side

  Javon Javonni
Total US births 18,406613
Most in one year 75548
Babies in 2025 16929
Estimated living today 18,000610
Median age today 239
Peak year 20012022
Best rank 357th boys3,053rd boys
Rank in 2025 1,196th4,396th
First recorded 19601990
Girls / boys 760 / 17,64690 / 523

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 Javons alive today are over 23; half the Javonnis are over 9. That is 14 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 Javonni.