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Kavin vs Kavon

American parents have registered 2,934 Kavins since 1880, against 2,827 Kavons. But in 2025 it was Kavon that was commoner, 35 babies to 27.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kavin against Kavon, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kavin Kavon

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 49 years and Kavon for 26 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Kavin Kavon
Total US births 2,9342,827
Most in one year 95169
Babies in 2025 2735
Estimated living today 2,8002,800
Median age today 2222
Peak year 20102000
Best rank 1,639th boys932nd boys
Rank in 2025 3,949th3,314th
First recorded 19501976
Girls / boys 0 / 2,93441 / 2,786

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: Kavin and Kavon.