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Levar vs Levorn

American parents have registered 2,026 Levars since 1880, against 141 Levorns. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Levar against Levorn, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Levar Levorn

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 62 years in which either name was published, Levar for 46 years and Levorn for 16 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Levar Levorn
Total US births 2,026141
Most in one year 53224
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 1,90090
Median age today 4575
Peak year 19771950
Best rank 342nd boys1,941st boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19771936
Girls / boys 9 / 2,01719 / 122

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 Levorns alive today are over 75; half the Levars are over 45. That is 30 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: Levar and Levorn.