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Ravi vs Ravin

American parents have registered 3,610 Ravis since 1880, against 1,241 Ravins. Ravi is still ahead, with 160 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Ravi Ravin

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 65 years in which either name was published, Ravi for 60 years and Ravin for 5 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Ravi Ravin
Total US births 3,6101,241
Most in one year 16774
Babies in 2025 1606
Estimated living today 3,5001,200
Median age today 2529
Peak year 20241993
Best rank 1,211th boys2,241st girls
Rank in 2025 1,244th13,208th
First recorded 19631937
Girls / boys 5 / 3,605994 / 247

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 Ravins alive today are over 29; half the Ravis are over 25. That is 4 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Ravi Ravin
England and Wales 68915

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Ravi and Ravin.