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Ravensymone vs Ravyn

American parents have registered 2,668 Ravyns since 1880, against 56 Ravensymones. Ravyn is still ahead, with 66 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Ravensymone Ravyn

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

Ravyn has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1976 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1990, when Ravensymone had 24 and Ravyn had 39.

Side by side

  Ravensymone Ravyn
Total US births 562,668
Most in one year 24133
Babies in 2025 under 566
Estimated living today 602,600
Median age today 3420
Peak year 19902002
Best rank 4,120th girls1,432nd girls
Rank in 2025 unranked2,607th
First recorded 19901976
Girls / boys 56 / 02,649 / 19

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 Ravyns are over 20. That is 14 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: Ravensymone and Ravyn.