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Jawad vs Jawaun

American parents have registered 1,653 Jawads since 1880, against 867 Jawauns. Jawad is still ahead, with 81 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jawad against Jawaun, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jawad Jawaun

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 52 years in which either name was published, Jawad for 35 years and Jawaun for 17 years. The lead changed hands 10 times.

Side by side

  Jawad Jawaun
Total US births 1,653867
Most in one year 8178
Babies in 2025 815
Estimated living today 1,600840
Median age today 1327
Peak year 20251997
Best rank 1,919th boys1,402nd boys
Rank in 2025 1,919th12,008th
First recorded 19721975
Girls / boys 0 / 1,6530 / 867

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 Jawauns alive today are over 27; half the Jawads are over 13. That is 14 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.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Jawad and Jawaun.