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Kavion vs Kavya

American parents have registered 2,152 Kavyas since 1880, against 1,405 Kavions. Kavya is still ahead, with 75 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kavion Kavya

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 36 years in which either name was published, Kavya for 35 years and Kavion for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Kavion Kavya
Total US births 1,4052,152
Most in one year 154106
Babies in 2025 4075
Estimated living today 1,4002,100
Median age today 1412
Peak year 20092012
Best rank 1,173rd boys1,886th girls
Rank in 2025 3,036th2,387th
First recorded 19951987
Girls / boys 0 / 1,4052,146 / 6

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 Kavions alive today are over 14; half the Kavyas are over 12. That is 2 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: Kavion and Kavya.