Chavon

Last seen for girls in 2007 at #15,491 · Last seen for boys in 2000 at #9,112
Given to girls 92.4% of the time

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Peak · girls
1979 · 69 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
671
since 1965

Chavon over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201978peak #1,623, 1979peak #4,280, 1995girlsboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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2007#15,4916
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2005#16,4625
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2002#13,5956
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2000#15,0315#9,1126
1999#7,23913
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1997#7,74211
1996#7,13012#7,9716
1995#7,04112#4,28014
1994#7,09712#7,7706
1993#4,10025#4,69712
1992#5,26718#8,4355
1991#5,94915
1990#4,00325#7,1786
1989#4,24822
1988#3,58526
1987#3,16929
1986#2,72435
1985#3,32826
1984#2,67734
1983#2,43338
1982#1,99152
1981#2,26544
1980#1,90456
1979#1,62369
1978#2,15943
1977#6,3409
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First appearance
1965

The first year at least five girls were named Chavon! It came in at #6,539, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1965–1969, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

See more about Chavon
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2007
Rise & fade · girls
14 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1965
  • Peaked 1979 at #1,623 (69 births)
  • Births halved by 1984, 5 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 23,265
  • Highest: 1 in 23,265 girls born in 1979 were named Chavon (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 320,436 girls born in 2007 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1980s
  • 53.9% of all girls named Chavon (362) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2002
  • Mostly boys until 2001, mostly girls since
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1960s5#6,539 (1965)#6,539
1970s139#1,623 (1979)#5,474
1980s362#1,904 (1980)#2,832
1990s143#4,003 (1990)#6,174
2000s22#13,595 (2002)#15,145

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Chavon in 1978

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#2,159
43 births · 1 in 35,625 girls

Top girls' names in 1978

  1. #1Jennifer56,314
  2. #2Melissa28,327
  3. #3Jessica26,102
  4. #4Amy23,213
  5. #5Heather22,270
  6. #6Amanda20,520
  7. #7Angela20,517
  8. #8Sarah19,976
  9. #9Michelle18,856
  10. #10Nicole17,279
  11. #2,159Chavon43
More about 1978

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1,531,859 girls got a published name in 1978; 1 in 35,625 of them was named Chavon, which outranked 81.2% of the 11,475 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Chavon
  1. #2,125Telisha44
  2. #2,125Wynter44
  3. #2,125Yalonda44
  4. #2,159Chavon43
  5. #2,159Alta43
  6. #2,159Bria43
  7. #2,159Charita43
  8. #2,191Alayna42
  9. #2,191Aliza42
  10. #2,191Alysa42

Tied with 31 names at #2,159; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1977
Risers
  1. 4,240Aja#4,652#412
  2. 1,987Kiley#2,606#619
  3. 1,951Kylee#2,838#887
  4. 1,785Winter#2,780#995
  5. 1,620Kylie#2,026#406
Fallers
  1. 913Shalon#868#1,781
  2. 760Farah#854#1,614
  3. 519Tennille#462#981
  4. 398Shawnte#740#1,138
  5. 362Farrah#177#539

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1978