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Savanah vs Savior

American parents have registered 10,104 Savanahs since 1880, against 773 Saviors. But in 2025 it was Savior that was commoner, 83 babies to 21.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Savanah against Savior, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Savanah Savior

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 93 years in which either name was published, Savanah for 90 years and Savior for 3 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Savanah Savior
Total US births 10,104773
Most in one year 512100
Babies in 2025 2183
Estimated living today 9,600770
Median age today 235
Peak year 19982024
Best rank 495th girls1,767th boys
Rank in 2025 5,722nd1,886th
First recorded 18841998
Girls / boys 10,104 / 020 / 753

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 Savanahs alive today are over 23; half the Saviors are over 5. That is 18 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: Savanah and Savior.