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Savalas vs Saverio

American parents have registered 1,861 Saverios since 1880, against 102 Savalases. Saverio is still ahead, with 10 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Savalas Saverio

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 116 years in which either name was published, Saverio for 112 years and Savalas for 4 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Savalas Saverio
Total US births 1021,861
Most in one year 3046
Babies in 2025 under 510
Estimated living today 90920
Median age today 5045
Peak year 19741922
Best rank 1,618th boys1,039th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked7,679th
First recorded 19741909
Girls / boys 0 / 1020 / 1,861

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 Saverios are over 45. That is 5 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 Saverio.