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Tavon vs Tavoris

American parents have registered 4,147 Tavons since 1880, against 554 Tavorises. Tavon is still ahead, with 19 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Tavon Tavoris

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 1983, when Tavon had 65 and Tavoris had 29.

Side by side

  Tavon Tavoris
Total US births 4,147554
Most in one year 18829
Babies in 2025 19under 5
Estimated living today 4,000530
Median age today 2834
Peak year 19961983
Best rank 775th boys1,864th boys
Rank in 2025 5,045thunranked
First recorded 19721975
Girls / boys 78 / 4,0690 / 554

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 Tavorises alive today are over 34; half the Tavons are over 28. That is 6 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: Tavon and Tavoris.