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Jawan vs Jawaun

American parents have registered 1,474 Jawans since 1880, against 867 Jawauns. Jawan is still ahead, with 9 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jawan against Jawaun, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jawan 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 55 years in which either name was published, Jawan for 48 years and Jawaun for 7 years. The lead changed hands 14 times.

9 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

  Jawan Jawaun
Total US births 1,474867
Most in one year 11978
Babies in 2025 95
Estimated living today 1,400840
Median age today 2827
Peak year 19971997
Best rank 1,065th boys1,402nd boys
Rank in 2025 8,243rd12,008th
First recorded 19701975
Girls / boys 12 / 1,4620 / 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.

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: Jawan and Jawaun.