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Tavin vs Tavon

American parents have registered 4,147 Tavons since 1880, against 1,903 Tavins. Tavon is still ahead, with 19 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Tavin 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

Of the 54 years in which either name was published, Tavon for 43 years and Tavin for 11 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Tavin Tavon
Total US births 1,9034,147
Most in one year 153188
Babies in 2025 1519
Estimated living today 1,9004,000
Median age today 1628
Peak year 20091996
Best rank 1,182nd boys775th boys
Rank in 2025 5,861st5,045th
First recorded 19811972
Girls / boys 23 / 1,88078 / 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 Tavins are over 16. That is 12 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: Tavin and Tavon.