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Tavares vs Tavoris

American parents have registered 3,008 Tavareses since 1880, against 554 Tavorises. Tavares is still ahead, with 19 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tavares against Tavoris, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tavares Tavoris

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

Tavares has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1974 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1992, when Tavares had 33 and Tavoris had 19.

Side by side

  Tavares Tavoris
Total US births 3,008554
Most in one year 17329
Babies in 2025 19under 5
Estimated living today 2,900530
Median age today 3834
Peak year 19771983
Best rank 650th boys1,864th boys
Rank in 2025 5,045thunranked
First recorded 19741975
Girls / boys 23 / 2,9850 / 554

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 Tavareses alive today are over 38; half the Tavorises are over 34. 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: Tavares and Tavoris.