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Davi vs Davon

American parents have registered 13,763 Davons since 1880, against 2,692 Davis. But in 2025 it was Davi that was commoner, 131 babies to 77.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Davi 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 69 years in which either name was published, Davon for 54 years and Davi for 15 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Davi Davon
Total US births 2,69213,763
Most in one year 164586
Babies in 2025 13177
Estimated living today 2,60013,000
Median age today 1027
Peak year 20221994
Best rank 1,341st boys403rd boys
Rank in 2025 1,492nd1,976th
First recorded 19521961
Girls / boys 634 / 2,058367 / 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 Davis are over 10. That is 17 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 Davon
France 335170
England and Wales 3197
Belgium 605

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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Related comparisons

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