Taevion
Masculine
Taevion is Ta- joined to the -evion ending, and both are American. What makes this one worth pausing on is the ae in the middle: it is a spelling device that does nothing to the sound and a great deal to the look.
How old is the name Taevion?
Taevion first appears in US birth records in 1995 — 30 years ago. The typical Taevion alive today was born around 2010, making them about 15 years old. About 600 people named Taevion are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Taevion most popular?
Taevion peaked in 2009, reaching #2702 nationally. Today it ranks #5608, 2,906 places below that high. See the whole 2009 chart.
Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Taevion
The ae digraph is one of the more interesting American spelling devices because it borrows a look from a language it has nothing to do with. In Latin and Old English, ae was a real vowel — Caesar, Æthelred — and in modern English it survives only in a handful of learned words. So an ae in a modern name reads as slightly archaic and slightly formal, which is a strange thing for a name invented in 1995 to want, and yet it works: Braeden, Kaeden, Jaelen, Taevion, Raeden. What the letters signal is deliberateness. The 2009 peak of Taevion sits at the late end of the -vion family's run, when the plainer spellings had been used and the elaborations were what was left.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No source establishes an etymology. The Ta- prefix is a productive American naming element with no documented meaning; the -vion and -evion endings belong to the same rhyme family as Davion, Javion and Trevion and have no traceable source. Nothing in the name descends from an older word.
Pronouncing Taevion
TAY-vee-un
Three syllables, stress on the first. The ae is a long a. Some families say tay-VEE-on with the weight in the middle, and the spelling supports both.
Nicknames for Taevion
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1995
- Most boys named
- 200945 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2702reached in 2009
- Change vs 2024
- +23.1%16 in 2025, from 13
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Taevions among us
people named Taevion are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 106,755 born in 2025 was named Taevion
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Lyndol test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Taevion's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Lyndol climbed just as high around 1927, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Lyndol's path sketches the road Taevion is walking now.
Taevion sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Taevion beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Taevion in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Tae works as a short form and is used on its own.
- The vowels are open and there is no difficult consonant.
- It reads immediately as a name of its family.
- Nobody will spell it correctly from hearing it.
- There is no meaning behind it to give a child.
- It is closely dated to the 2000s.
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Frequently asked
- How many Taevions are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Taevion are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Taevion in 2025?
- Taevion ranks #5608 among US boy names in 2025, with 16 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Taevion?
- About 1 in every 106,755 US boys born in 2025 was named Taevion — 16 in all.
- Will my child share the name Taevion with classmates?
- Taevion will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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