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Savanna vs Savon

American parents have registered 32,989 Savannas since 1880, against 1,792 Savons. Savanna is still ahead, with 222 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Savanna against Savon, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Savanna Savon

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

Savanna has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1916 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1993, when Savanna had 780 and Savon had 194.

Side by side

  Savanna Savon
Total US births 32,9891,792
Most in one year 1,502194
Babies in 2025 22226
Estimated living today 33,0001,800
Median age today 2226
Peak year 20061993
Best rank 230th girls790th boys
Rank in 2025 1,085th4,050th
First recorded 19161991
Girls / boys 32,974 / 1566 / 1,726

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 Savons alive today are over 26; half the Savannas are over 22. 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.

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