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Tavio vs Tavion

American parents have registered 3,101 Tavions since 1880, against 158 Tavios. Tavion is still ahead, with 38 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Tavio 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 43 years in which either name was published, Tavion for 37 years and Tavio for 6 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Tavio Tavion
Total US births 1583,101
Most in one year 15200
Babies in 2025 538
Estimated living today 1503,100
Median age today 1719
Peak year 19662002
Best rank 2,043rd boys855th boys
Rank in 2025 12,008th3,128th
First recorded 19661989
Girls / boys 0 / 15813 / 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 Tavios are over 17. That is 2 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: Tavio and Tavion.