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Tavia vs Tavin

American parents have registered 2,490 Tavias since 1880, against 1,903 Tavins. But in 2025 it was Tavin that was commoner, 15 babies to 13.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tavia against Tavin, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tavia Tavin

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 70 years in which either name was published, Tavia for 48 years and Tavin for 22 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Tavia Tavin
Total US births 2,4901,903
Most in one year 104153
Babies in 2025 1315
Estimated living today 2,4001,900
Median age today 3216
Peak year 19932009
Best rank 1,507th girls1,182nd boys
Rank in 2025 7,885th5,861st
First recorded 19441981
Girls / boys 2,490 / 023 / 1,880

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 Tavias alive today are over 32; half the Tavins are over 16. That is 16 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: Tavia and Tavin.