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Davi vs Davina

American parents have registered 11,380 Davinas since 1880, against 2,692 Davis. Davina is still ahead, with 363 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Davi Davina

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

Davina has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1916 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1959, when Davi had 13 and Davina had 15.

Side by side

  Davi Davina
Total US births 2,69211,380
Most in one year 164541
Babies in 2025 131363
Estimated living today 2,60011,000
Median age today 1021
Peak year 20222022
Best rank 1,341st boys562nd girls
Rank in 2025 1,492nd749th
First recorded 19521916
Girls / boys 634 / 2,05811,380 / 0

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 Davinas alive today are over 21; half the Davis are over 10. That is 11 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Davi Davina
France 3352,020
England and Wales 3191,343
Belgium 60501
Switzerland 190147
Ireland 61241
Scotland 4121

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