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Javen vs Javeon

American parents have registered 3,561 Javens since 1880, against 1,674 Javeons. Javen is still ahead, with 38 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Javen against Javeon, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Javen Javeon

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

Javen has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1952 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2021, when Javen had 38 and Javeon had 36.

Side by side

  Javen Javeon
Total US births 3,5611,674
Most in one year 205112
Babies in 2025 3816
Estimated living today 3,5001,700
Median age today 1816
Peak year 20072008
Best rank 986th boys1,467th boys
Rank in 2025 3,128th5,608th
First recorded 19521991
Girls / boys 100 / 3,4610 / 1,674

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 Javens alive today are over 18; half the Javeons are over 16. That is 2 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: Javen and Javeon.