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Kavin vs Kavion

American parents have registered 2,934 Kavins since 1880, against 1,405 Kavions. But in 2025 it was Kavion that was commoner, 40 babies to 27.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kavin against Kavion, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kavin Kavion

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 75 years in which either name was published, Kavin for 67 years and Kavion for 8 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Kavin Kavion
Total US births 2,9341,405
Most in one year 95154
Babies in 2025 2740
Estimated living today 2,8001,400
Median age today 2214
Peak year 20102009
Best rank 1,639th boys1,173rd boys
Rank in 2025 3,949th3,036th
First recorded 19501995
Girls / boys 0 / 2,9340 / 1,405

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 Kavins alive today are over 22; half the Kavions are over 14. That is 8 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: Kavin and Kavion.