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Savana vs Savilla

American parents have registered 5,436 Savanas since 1880, against 522 Savillas. Savana is still ahead, with 21 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Savana against Savilla, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Savana Savilla

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 101 years in which either name was published, Savilla for 58 years and Savana for 43 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Savana Savilla
Total US births 5,436522
Most in one year 31716
Babies in 2025 216
Estimated living today 5,400110
Median age today 2255
Peak year 20001915
Best rank 731st girls1,964th girls
Rank in 2025 5,722nd13,208th
First recorded 19111882
Girls / boys 5,436 / 0522 / 0

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 Savillas alive today are over 55; half the Savanas are over 22. That is 33 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: Savana and Savilla.