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Kevin vs Kevonte

American parents have registered 1,189,844 Kevins since 1880, against 733 Kevontes. Kevin is still ahead, with 1,628 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kevin against Kevonte, 1880 to 2025 0 8k 16k 24k 32k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kevin Kevonte

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

Kevin has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1912 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Kevin had 1,628 and Kevonte had 10.

Side by side

  Kevin Kevonte
Total US births 1,189,844733
Most in one year 30,73459
Babies in 2025 1,62810
Estimated living today 1 million720
Median age today 4624
Peak year 19632000
Best rank 11th boys1,815th boys
Rank in 2025 221st7,679th
First recorded 19121991
Girls / boys 5,337 / 1,184,5070 / 733

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 Kevins alive today are over 46; half the Kevontes are over 24. That is 22 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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