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Tavia vs Tavion

American parents have registered 3,101 Tavions since 1880, against 2,490 Tavias. Tavion is still ahead, with 38 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Tavia Tavion

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 42 years and Tavion for 28 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Tavia Tavion
Total US births 2,4903,101
Most in one year 104200
Babies in 2025 1338
Estimated living today 2,4003,100
Median age today 3219
Peak year 19932002
Best rank 1,507th girls855th boys
Rank in 2025 7,885th3,128th
First recorded 19441989
Girls / boys 2,490 / 013 / 3,088

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 Tavions are over 19. That is 13 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Tavia Tavion
England and Wales 856

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Tavia and Tavion.