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Levon vs Levorn

American parents have registered 6,167 Levons since 1880, against 141 Levorns. Levon is still ahead, with 102 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Levon 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

Levon has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1913 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1950, when Levon had 71 and Levorn had 24.

Side by side

  Levon Levorn
Total US births 6,167141
Most in one year 14024
Babies in 2025 102under 5
Estimated living today 4,90090
Median age today 3375
Peak year 20181950
Best rank 1,299th boys1,941st boys
Rank in 2025 1,644thunranked
First recorded 19131936
Girls / boys 429 / 5,73819 / 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 Levons are over 33. That is 42 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: Levon and Levorn.