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Sevon vs Sevyn

American parents have registered 6,239 Sevyns since 1880, against 229 Sevons. Sevyn is still ahead, with 908 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Sevon against Sevyn, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Sevon Sevyn

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 33 years in which either name was published, Sevyn for 22 years and Sevon for 11 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Sevon Sevyn
Total US births 2296,239
Most in one year 24911
Babies in 2025 8908
Estimated living today 2306,200
Median age today 223
Peak year 19932023
Best rank 2,865th boys544th girls
Rank in 2025 8,910th574th
First recorded 19931999
Girls / boys 6 / 2233,930 / 2,309

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 Sevyns are over 3. That is 19 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: Sevon and Sevyn.