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Zavien vs Zavier

American parents have registered 7,052 Zaviers since 1880, against 1,037 Zaviens. Zavier is still ahead, with 214 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Zavien against Zavier, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Zavien Zavier

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

Zavier has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1968 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2020, when Zavien had 61 and Zavier had 255.

Side by side

  Zavien Zavier
Total US births 1,0377,052
Most in one year 61310
Babies in 2025 42214
Estimated living today 1,0007,000
Median age today 1214
Peak year 20202010
Best rank 2,235th boys739th boys
Rank in 2025 2,941st1,034th
First recorded 19921968
Girls / boys 0 / 1,0375 / 7,047

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 Zaviers alive today are over 14; half the Zaviens are over 12. That is 2 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 Zavien Zavier
England and Wales 4575

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: Zavien and Zavier.