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Davina vs Davontae

American parents have registered 11,380 Davinas since 1880, against 1,554 Davontaes. Davina is still ahead, with 363 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Davina Davontae

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 2006, when Davina had 88 and Davontae had 68.

Side by side

  Davina Davontae
Total US births 11,3801,554
Most in one year 54190
Babies in 2025 36317
Estimated living today 11,0001,500
Median age today 2122
Peak year 20221992
Best rank 562nd girls1,162nd boys
Rank in 2025 749th5,399th
First recorded 19161988
Girls / boys 11,380 / 00 / 1,554

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.

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 Davina Davontae
England and Wales 1,3436

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: Davina and Davontae.