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Savana vs Savion

American parents have registered 5,436 Savanas since 1880, against 5,005 Savions. But in 2025 it was Savion that was commoner, 95 babies to 21.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Savana against Savion, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Savana Savion

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 45 years in which either name was published, Savana for 25 years and Savion for 20 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

Side by side

  Savana Savion
Total US births 5,4365,005
Most in one year 317393
Babies in 2025 2195
Estimated living today 5,4004,900
Median age today 2218
Peak year 20002002
Best rank 731st girls568th boys
Rank in 2025 5,722nd1,708th
First recorded 19111989
Girls / boys 5,436 / 017 / 4,988

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 Savanas alive today are over 22; half the Savions are over 18. That is 4 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: Savana and Savion.