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Tevon vs Tevyn

American parents have registered 1,062 Tevons since 1880, against 294 Tevyns. Tevon is still ahead, with 5 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tevon against Tevyn, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tevon 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

Of the 42 years in which either name was published, Tevon for 38 years and Tevyn for 4 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Tevon Tevyn
Total US births 1,062294
Most in one year 7219
Babies in 2025 5under 5
Estimated living today 1,000290
Median age today 2719
Peak year 19941994
Best rank 1,373rd boys3,751st boys
Rank in 2025 12,008thunranked
First recorded 19811991
Girls / boys 0 / 1,0625 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Tevons alive today are over 27; half the Tevyns are over 19. That is 8 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: Tevon and Tevyn.