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Kavita vs Kavon

American parents have registered 2,827 Kavons since 1880, against 786 Kavitas. Kavon is still ahead, with 35 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kavita 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 58 years in which either name was published, Kavon for 36 years and Kavita for 22 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Kavita Kavon
Total US births 7862,827
Most in one year 33169
Babies in 2025 635
Estimated living today 7602,800
Median age today 3822
Peak year 19832000
Best rank 2,659th girls932nd boys
Rank in 2025 13,208th3,314th
First recorded 19681976
Girls / boys 786 / 041 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Kavitas alive today are over 38; half the Kavons are over 22. That is 16 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: Kavita and Kavon.