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Keven vs Kevonte

American parents have registered 8,882 Kevens since 1880, against 733 Kevontes. Keven is still ahead, with 15 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Keven Kevonte

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

Keven has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1930 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Keven had 15 and Kevonte had 10.

Side by side

  Keven Kevonte
Total US births 8,882733
Most in one year 22559
Babies in 2025 1510
Estimated living today 8,100720
Median age today 3424
Peak year 20032000
Best rank 775th boys1,815th boys
Rank in 2025 5,861st7,679th
First recorded 19301991
Girls / boys 130 / 8,7520 / 733

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 Kevens alive today are over 34; half the Kevontes are over 24. That is 10 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: Keven and Kevonte.