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Savalas vs Savion

American parents have registered 5,005 Savions since 1880, against 102 Savalases. Savion is still ahead, with 95 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Savalas against Savion, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Savalas Savion

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 42 years in which either name was published, Savion for 37 years and Savalas for 5 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Savalas Savion
Total US births 1025,005
Most in one year 30393
Babies in 2025 under 595
Estimated living today 904,900
Median age today 5018
Peak year 19742002
Best rank 1,618th boys568th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked1,708th
First recorded 19741989
Girls / boys 0 / 10217 / 4,988

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 Savalases alive today are over 50; half the Savions are over 18. That is 32 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: Savalas and Savion.