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Davari vs Davon

American parents have registered 13,763 Davons since 1880, against 241 Davaris. Davon is still ahead, with 77 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Davari against Davon, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Davari Davon

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

Davon has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1961 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Davari had 33 and Davon had 77.

Side by side

  Davari Davon
Total US births 24113,763
Most in one year 33586
Babies in 2025 3377
Estimated living today 24013,000
Median age today 827
Peak year 20251994
Best rank 3,450th boys403rd boys
Rank in 2025 3,450th1,976th
First recorded 20051961
Girls / boys 0 / 241367 / 13,396

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 Davons alive today are over 27; half the Davaris are over 8. That is 19 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 Davon.