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Tavares vs Tavio

American parents have registered 3,008 Tavareses since 1880, against 158 Tavios. Tavares is still ahead, with 19 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tavares against Tavio, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tavares Tavio

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 53 years in which either name was published, Tavares for 52 years and Tavio for 1 year. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Tavares Tavio
Total US births 3,008158
Most in one year 17315
Babies in 2025 195
Estimated living today 2,900150
Median age today 3817
Peak year 19771966
Best rank 650th boys2,043rd boys
Rank in 2025 5,045th12,008th
First recorded 19741966
Girls / boys 23 / 2,9850 / 158

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 Tavareses alive today are over 38; half the Tavios are over 17. That is 21 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: Tavares and Tavio.