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Savanna vs Savior

American parents have registered 32,989 Savannas since 1880, against 773 Saviors. Savanna is still ahead, with 222 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Savanna against Savior, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Savanna 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

Savanna has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1916 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2024, when Savanna had 254 and Savior had 100.

Side by side

  Savanna Savior
Total US births 32,989773
Most in one year 1,502100
Babies in 2025 22283
Estimated living today 33,000770
Median age today 225
Peak year 20062024
Best rank 230th girls1,767th boys
Rank in 2025 1,085th1,886th
First recorded 19161998
Girls / boys 32,974 / 1520 / 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 Savannas alive today are over 22; half the Saviors are over 5. That is 17 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: Savanna and Savior.