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Lavon vs Lavoris

American parents have registered 11,359 Lavons since 1880, against 375 Lavorises. Lavon is still ahead, with 43 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Lavon against Lavoris, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Lavon Lavoris

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

Lavon has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1896 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1962, when Lavon had 107 and Lavoris had 46.

Side by side

  Lavon Lavoris
Total US births 11,359375
Most in one year 20146
Babies in 2025 43under 5
Estimated living today 6,300340
Median age today 4949
Peak year 19241985
Best rank 604th girls3,070th boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 18961961
Girls / boys 6,246 / 5,113163 / 212

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.

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