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Davianna vs Davis

American parents have registered 33,114 Davises since 1880, against 743 Daviannas. Davis is still ahead, with 434 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Davianna Davis

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

Davis has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2011, when Davianna had 41 and Davis had 643.

Side by side

  Davianna Davis
Total US births 74333,114
Most in one year 44773
Babies in 2025 12434
Estimated living today 74027,000
Median age today 1621
Peak year 20062007
Best rank 3,564th girls395th boys
Rank in 2025 8,362nd668th
First recorded 19931880
Girls / boys 743 / 01,038 / 32,076

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 Davises alive today are over 21; half the Daviannas are over 16. 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.

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