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Davaughn vs Davion

American parents have registered 13,328 Davions since 1880, against 862 Davaughns. Davion is still ahead, with 139 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Davaughn Davion

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

Davion has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1970 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1982, when Davaughn had 7 and Davion had 16.

Side by side

  Davaughn Davion
Total US births 86213,328
Most in one year 44656
Babies in 2025 6139
Estimated living today 84013,000
Median age today 2419
Peak year 19952007
Best rank 1,914th boys434th boys
Rank in 2025 10,695th1,352nd
First recorded 19741970
Girls / boys 0 / 862216 / 13,112

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 Davaughns alive today are over 24; half the Davions are over 19. That is 5 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Davaughn and Davion.