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Ravenna vs Ravensymone

American parents have registered 567 Ravennas since 1880, against 56 Ravensymones. Ravenna is still ahead, with 35 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Ravenna against Ravensymone, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Ravenna 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

Of the 39 years in which either name was published, Ravenna for 35 years and Ravensymone for 4 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Ravenna Ravensymone
Total US births 56756
Most in one year 4424
Babies in 2025 35under 5
Estimated living today 53060
Median age today 834
Peak year 20201990
Best rank 3,450th girls4,120th girls
Rank in 2025 4,067thunranked
First recorded 19321990
Girls / boys 567 / 056 / 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 Ravennas are over 8. That is 26 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: Ravenna and Ravensymone.