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Ravon vs Ravyn

American parents have registered 2,668 Ravyns since 1880, against 1,170 Ravons. Ravyn is still ahead, with 66 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Ravon 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

Of the 64 years in which either name was published, Ravon for 32 years and Ravyn for 32 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Ravon Ravyn
Total US births 1,1702,668
Most in one year 69133
Babies in 2025 under 566
Estimated living today 1,1002,600
Median age today 3020
Peak year 19962002
Best rank 1,705th boys1,432nd girls
Rank in 2025 unranked2,607th
First recorded 19351976
Girls / boys 264 / 9062,649 / 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 Ravons alive today are over 30; half the Ravyns are over 20. That is 10 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Ravon and Ravyn.