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Davari vs Davis

American parents have registered 33,114 Davises since 1880, against 241 Davaris. Davis is still ahead, with 434 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Davari against Davis, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Davari Davis

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

Davis has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Davari had 33 and Davis had 434.

Side by side

  Davari Davis
Total US births 24133,114
Most in one year 33773
Babies in 2025 33434
Estimated living today 24027,000
Median age today 821
Peak year 20252007
Best rank 3,450th boys395th boys
Rank in 2025 3,450th668th
First recorded 20051880
Girls / boys 0 / 2411,038 / 32,076

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 Davises alive today are over 21; half the Davaris are over 8. That is 13 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: Davari and Davis.