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Davion vs Davontay

American parents have registered 13,328 Davions since 1880, against 570 Davontays. Davion is still ahead, with 139 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Davion Davontay

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 Davontay had 33.

Side by side

  Davion Davontay
Total US births 13,328570
Most in one year 65636
Babies in 2025 139under 5
Estimated living today 13,000560
Median age today 1923
Peak year 20071993
Best rank 434th boys2,162nd boys
Rank in 2025 1,352ndunranked
First recorded 19701991
Girls / boys 216 / 13,1120 / 570

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 Davontays alive today are over 23; half the Davions are over 19. That is 4 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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