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Revel vs Revonda

American parents have registered 767 Revondas since 1880, against 519 Revels. But in 2025 it was Revel that was commoner, 41 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Revel Revonda

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 77 years in which either name was published, Revonda for 49 years and Revel for 28 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Revel Revonda
Total US births 519767
Most in one year 4637
Babies in 2025 41under 5
Estimated living today 450610
Median age today 563
Peak year 20221962
Best rank 3,879th boys1,889th girls
Rank in 2025 4,139thunranked
First recorded 19151932
Girls / boys 153 / 366767 / 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 Revondas alive today are over 63; half the Revels are over 5. That is 58 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: Revel and Revonda.