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Davina vs Davonna

American parents have registered 11,380 Davinas since 1880, against 974 Davonnas. Davina is still ahead, with 363 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Davina Davonna

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 88 years in which either name was published, Davina for 87 years and Davonna for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Davina Davonna
Total US births 11,380974
Most in one year 54153
Babies in 2025 363under 5
Estimated living today 11,000940
Median age today 2131
Peak year 20221993
Best rank 562nd girls2,380th girls
Rank in 2025 749thunranked
First recorded 19161947
Girls / boys 11,380 / 0974 / 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 Davonnas alive today are over 31; half the Davinas are over 21. That is 10 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: Davina and Davonna.