Ravin vs Ravon
American parents have registered 1,241 Ravins since 1880, against 1,170 Ravons. Ravin is still ahead, with 6 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Ravin Ravon
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 63 years in which either name was published, Ravon for 34 years and Ravin for 29 years. The lead changed hands 21 times.
- 1939–1975 Ravon ahead
- 1977–1990 Ravin ahead, apart from 2 short spells
- 1994–1996 Ravon ahead
- 2001–2007 Ravin ahead
- 2008–2019 Ravon ahead, apart from one short spell
- 2022–2025 Ravin ahead
13 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Ravin | Ravon | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 1,241 | 1,170 |
| Most in one year | 74 | 69 |
| Babies in 2025 | 6 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 1,200 | 1,100 |
| Median age today | 29 | 30 |
| Peak year | 1993 | 1996 |
| Best rank | 2,241st girls | 1,705th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 13,208th | unranked |
| First recorded | 1937 | 1935 |
| Girls / boys | 994 / 247 | 264 / 906 |
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.
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: Ravin and Ravon.