girls:
78 births since 1975
#5638 (1st percentile)
boys:
4k births since 1972
#1937 (58th percentile)
overall:
4.1k births since 1972
#4285 (45th percentile)
The name Tavon is the #4,285 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,095 recorded births since 1972. This represents the 44.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 44.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,937 (57.7% percentile) for all time with 4,017 births since 1972. For girls, it ranks #5,638 (1.3% percentile) for all time with 78 births since 1975.
Tavon first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1972 (1972 for boys and 1975 for girls).
The name Tavon has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.1% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Tavon reached its peak popularity in 1996, achieving the 23.0% percentile (ranked #599) with 94 births per million. The name was most common in 1996, with 94 births per million (ranked 23.0% percentile). Despite a low point around 2020, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for boys. Currently, Tavon ranks #894 for boys (1.9% percentile) with 12 births per million, which is 12.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Tavon reached its peak popularity in 1988, achieving the 1.0% percentile (ranked #800) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1988, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2002.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Tavon".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Tavon. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 42.9% confident that Tavon is pronounced as TAY-vahn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is TAY-vuhn, at 31.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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