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Tavio vs Tavon

American parents have registered 4,147 Tavons since 1880, against 158 Tavios. Tavon is still ahead, with 19 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Tavio 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 55 years in which either name was published, Tavon for 54 years and Tavio for 1 year. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Tavio Tavon
Total US births 1584,147
Most in one year 15188
Babies in 2025 519
Estimated living today 1504,000
Median age today 1728
Peak year 19661996
Best rank 2,043rd boys775th boys
Rank in 2025 12,008th5,045th
First recorded 19661972
Girls / boys 0 / 15878 / 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 Tavons alive today are over 28; half the Tavios are over 17. That is 11 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: Tavio and Tavon.