Savalas vs Savannah
American parents have registered 191,736 Savannahs since 1880, against 102 Savalases. Savannah is still ahead, with 2,141 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Savalas Savannah
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 146 years in which either name was published, Savannah for 144 years and Savalas for 2 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.
Side by side
| Savalas | Savannah | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 102 | 191,736 |
| Most in one year | 30 | 7,112 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | 2,141 |
| Estimated living today | 90 | 187,000 |
| Median age today | 50 | 19 |
| Peak year | 1974 | 2000 |
| Best rank | 1,618th boys | 37th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | 135th |
| First recorded | 1974 | 1880 |
| Girls / boys | 0 / 102 | 191,514 / 222 |
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 Savalases alive today are over 50; half the Savannahs are over 19. That is 31 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: Savalas and Savannah.