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Savion vs Savon

American parents have registered 5,005 Savions since 1880, against 1,792 Savons. Savion is still ahead, with 95 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Savion Savon

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 37 years in which either name was published, Savion for 33 years and Savon for 4 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Savion Savon
Total US births 5,0051,792
Most in one year 393194
Babies in 2025 9526
Estimated living today 4,9001,800
Median age today 1826
Peak year 20021993
Best rank 568th boys790th boys
Rank in 2025 1,708th4,050th
First recorded 19891991
Girls / boys 17 / 4,98866 / 1,726

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 Savons alive today are over 26; half the Savions are over 18. That is 8 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: Savion and Savon.