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Daveigh vs Davon

American parents have registered 13,763 Davons since 1880, against 173 Daveighs. Davon is still ahead, with 77 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Daveigh 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 2022, when Daveigh had 8 and Davon had 110.

Side by side

  Daveigh Davon
Total US births 17313,763
Most in one year 22586
Babies in 2025 under 577
Estimated living today 17013,000
Median age today 1727
Peak year 20031994
Best rank 5,419th girls403rd boys
Rank in 2025 unranked1,976th
First recorded 20031961
Girls / boys 173 / 0367 / 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 Daveighs are over 17. That is 10 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: Daveigh and Davon.