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Sevin vs Sevon

American parents have registered 644 Sevins since 1880, against 229 Sevons. Sevin is still ahead, with 32 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Sevin against Sevon, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Sevin Sevon

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 34 years in which either name was published, Sevin for 28 years and Sevon for 6 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Sevin Sevon
Total US births 644229
Most in one year 4424
Babies in 2025 328
Estimated living today 640230
Median age today 1022
Peak year 20221993
Best rank 3,344th boys2,865th boys
Rank in 2025 3,513th8,910th
First recorded 19901993
Girls / boys 122 / 5226 / 223

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 Sevons alive today are over 22; half the Sevins are over 10. That is 12 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: Sevin and Sevon.