Savanah vs Savilla

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Savanah 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 111 years in which either name was published, Savanah for 71 years and Savilla for 40 years. The lead changed hands 21 times.

• 1885–1888 Savanah ahead
• 1889–1892 Savilla ahead
• 1894–1904 Savanah ahead, apart from one short spell
• 1905–1907 Savilla ahead
• 1908–1910 Savanah ahead
• 1913–1928 Savilla ahead, apart from one short spell
• 1933–1935 Savanah ahead
• 1936–1970 Savilla ahead, apart from one short spell
• 1977–2025 Savanah ahead

10 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

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 Savanahs are over 23. That is 32 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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