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Jawon vs Jawuan

American parents have registered 810 Jawons since 1880, against 691 Jawuans. But in 2025 it was Jawuan that was commoner, 5 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jawon against Jawuan, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jawon Jawuan

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 45 years in which either name was published, Jawon for 33 years and Jawuan for 12 years. The lead changed hands 17 times.

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

Side by side

  Jawon Jawuan
Total US births 810691
Most in one year 6262
Babies in 2025 under 55
Estimated living today 790670
Median age today 2626
Peak year 19971997
Best rank 1,628th boys1,628th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked12,008th
First recorded 19751980
Girls / boys 5 / 8050 / 691

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.

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