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Raven vs Ravensymone

American parents have registered 48,253 Ravens since 1880, against 56 Ravensymones. Raven is still ahead, with 813 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Raven against Ravensymone, 1880 to 2025 0 600 1.2k 1.8k 2.4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Raven Ravensymone

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

Raven has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1921 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1990, when Raven had 1,822 and Ravensymone had 24.

Side by side

  Raven Ravensymone
Total US births 48,25356
Most in one year 2,39424
Babies in 2025 813under 5
Estimated living today 47,00060
Median age today 2634
Peak year 19931990
Best rank 139th girls4,120th girls
Rank in 2025 404thunranked
First recorded 19211990
Girls / boys 44,920 / 3,33356 / 0

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 Ravensymones alive today are over 34; half the Ravens are over 26. That is 8 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: Raven and Ravensymone.