Daven vs Davon

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Daven 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

Of the 67 years in which either name was published, Davon for 59 years and Daven for 8 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

• 1955–1962 Daven ahead
• 1963 Davon ahead
• 1964–1965 Daven ahead
• 1966 Davon ahead
• 1967–1968 Daven ahead
• 1969–2025 Davon ahead

Side by side

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 Davens are over 22. That is 5 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

• Daven Texas (4.0×), California (3.5×), Florida (2.6×)
• Davon the District of Columbia (8.2×), Maryland (7.7×), South Carolina (2.0×)

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

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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