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Taven vs Tavion

American parents have registered 3,101 Tavions since 1880, against 1,765 Tavens. Tavion is still ahead, with 38 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Taven Tavion

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 38 years in which either name was published, Tavion for 32 years and Taven for 6 years. The lead changed hands 11 times.

Side by side

  Taven Tavion
Total US births 1,7653,101
Most in one year 158200
Babies in 2025 2438
Estimated living today 1,7003,100
Median age today 1519
Peak year 20072002
Best rank 1,132nd boys855th boys
Rank in 2025 5,399th3,128th
First recorded 19861989
Girls / boys 59 / 1,70613 / 3,088

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 Tavions alive today are over 19; half the Tavens are over 15. 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: Taven and Tavion.