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Tavarius vs Tavon

American parents have registered 4,147 Tavons since 1880, against 711 Tavariuses. Tavon is still ahead, with 19 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Tavarius Tavon

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

Tavon has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1972 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2009, when Tavarius had 28 and Tavon had 61.

Side by side

  Tavarius Tavon
Total US births 7114,147
Most in one year 38188
Babies in 2025 under 519
Estimated living today 6904,000
Median age today 2428
Peak year 20061996
Best rank 2,932nd boys775th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked5,045th
First recorded 19761972
Girls / boys 0 / 71178 / 4,069

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 Tavons alive today are over 28; half the Tavariuses are over 24. 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: Tavarius and Tavon.