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Davian vs Davion

American parents have registered 13,328 Davions since 1880, against 6,820 Davians. Davion is still ahead, with 139 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Davian 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

Of the 55 years in which either name was published, Davion for 51 years and Davian for 4 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.

Side by side

  Davian Davion
Total US births 6,82013,328
Most in one year 378656
Babies in 2025 137139
Estimated living today 6,70013,000
Median age today 1419
Peak year 20072007
Best rank 642nd boys434th boys
Rank in 2025 1,362nd1,352nd
First recorded 19701970
Girls / boys 105 / 6,715216 / 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 Davions alive today are over 19; half the Davians are over 14. 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Davian Davion
England and Wales 8313

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: Davian and Davion.