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Davion vs Davonte

American parents have registered 13,328 Davions since 1880, against 4,681 Davontes. Davion is still ahead, with 139 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Davion Davonte

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 55 years in which either name was published, Davion for 51 years and Davonte for 4 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Davion Davonte
Total US births 13,3284,681
Most in one year 656419
Babies in 2025 13936
Estimated living today 13,0004,600
Median age today 1926
Peak year 20071992
Best rank 434th boys491st boys
Rank in 2025 1,352nd3,240th
First recorded 19701982
Girls / boys 216 / 13,1125 / 4,676

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 Davontes alive today are over 26; half the Davions are over 19. That is 7 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 Davonte
England and Wales 135

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 Davonte.