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Tavarus vs Tavon

American parents have registered 4,147 Tavons since 1880, against 995 Tavaruses. Tavon is still ahead, with 19 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Tavarus Tavon

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 54 years in which either name was published, Tavon for 53 years and Tavarus for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Tavarus Tavon
Total US births 9954,147
Most in one year 39188
Babies in 2025 under 519
Estimated living today 9604,000
Median age today 3228
Peak year 19921996
Best rank 2,002nd boys775th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked5,045th
First recorded 19741972
Girls / boys 0 / 99578 / 4,069

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 Tavaruses alive today are over 32; half the Tavons are over 28. 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: Tavarus and Tavon.