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Kevan vs Kevion

American parents have registered 3,531 Kevans since 1880, against 1,102 Kevions. But in 2025 it was Kevion that was commoner, 10 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kevan against Kevion, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kevan Kevion

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 80 years in which either name was published, Kevan for 54 years and Kevion for 26 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Kevan Kevion
Total US births 3,5311,102
Most in one year 9261
Babies in 2025 under 510
Estimated living today 3,1001,100
Median age today 4319
Peak year 19862008
Best rank 983rd boys2,186th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked7,679th
First recorded 19451989
Girls / boys 52 / 3,4795 / 1,097

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 Kevans alive today are over 43; half the Kevions are over 19. That is 24 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: Kevan and Kevion.