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Ravensymone vs Ravi

American parents have registered 3,610 Ravis since 1880, against 56 Ravensymones. Ravi is still ahead, with 160 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Ravensymone against Ravi, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Ravensymone Ravi

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

Ravi has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1963 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1990, when Ravensymone had 24 and Ravi had 88.

Side by side

  Ravensymone Ravi
Total US births 563,610
Most in one year 24167
Babies in 2025 under 5160
Estimated living today 603,500
Median age today 3425
Peak year 19902024
Best rank 4,120th girls1,211th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked1,244th
First recorded 19901963
Girls / boys 56 / 05 / 3,605

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 Ravensymones alive today are over 34; half the Ravis are over 25. That is 9 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: Ravensymone and Ravi.