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Tavaris vs Tavio

American parents have registered 2,526 Tavarises since 1880, against 158 Tavios. Tavaris is still ahead, with 13 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tavaris against Tavio, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tavaris Tavio

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 53 years in which either name was published, Tavaris for 52 years and Tavio for 1 year. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Tavaris Tavio
Total US births 2,526158
Most in one year 10915
Babies in 2025 135
Estimated living today 2,400150
Median age today 3017
Peak year 19951966
Best rank 1,081st boys2,043rd boys
Rank in 2025 6,446th12,008th
First recorded 19741966
Girls / boys 6 / 2,5200 / 158

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 Tavarises alive today are over 30; half the Tavios are over 17. That is 13 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Tavaris and Tavio.