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Tevita vs Tevyn

American parents have registered 867 Tevitas since 1880, against 294 Tevyns. Tevita is still ahead, with 17 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tevita against Tevyn, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tevita Tevyn

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

Tevita has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1979 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1991, when Tevita had 15 and Tevyn had 14.

Side by side

  Tevita Tevyn
Total US births 867294
Most in one year 3119
Babies in 2025 17under 5
Estimated living today 850290
Median age today 2019
Peak year 20161994
Best rank 3,524th boys3,751st boys
Rank in 2025 5,399thunranked
First recorded 19791991
Girls / boys 0 / 8675 / 289

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.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Tevita and Tevyn.