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Davis vs Davonne

American parents have registered 33,114 Davises since 1880, against 591 Davonnes. Davis is still ahead, with 434 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Davis Davonne

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

Davis has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1970, when Davis had 132 and Davonne had 13.

Side by side

  Davis Davonne
Total US births 33,114591
Most in one year 77335
Babies in 2025 434under 5
Estimated living today 27,000570
Median age today 2132
Peak year 20071992
Best rank 395th boys2,670th boys
Rank in 2025 668thunranked
First recorded 18801958
Girls / boys 1,038 / 32,076198 / 393

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 Davonnes alive today are over 32; half the Davises are over 21. That is 11 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: Davis and Davonne.