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Davion vs Davontae

American parents have registered 13,328 Davions since 1880, against 1,554 Davontaes. Davion is still ahead, with 139 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Davion 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

Davion has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1970 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1992, when Davion had 154 and Davontae had 90.

Side by side

  Davion Davontae
Total US births 13,3281,554
Most in one year 65690
Babies in 2025 13917
Estimated living today 13,0001,500
Median age today 1922
Peak year 20071992
Best rank 434th boys1,162nd boys
Rank in 2025 1,352nd5,399th
First recorded 19701988
Girls / boys 216 / 13,1120 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Davontaes alive today are over 22; half the Davions are over 19. That is 3 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 Davion Davontae
England and Wales 136

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: Davion and Davontae.