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Daenerys vs Daevion

American parents have registered 1,477 Daeneryses since 1880, against 570 Daevions. Daenerys is still ahead, with 115 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Daenerys against Daevion, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Daenerys Daevion

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 28 years in which either name was published, Daevion for 14 years and Daenerys for 14 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Daenerys Daevion
Total US births 1,477570
Most in one year 16649
Babies in 2025 1157
Estimated living today 1,500560
Median age today 616
Peak year 20182008
Best rank 1,360th girls2,542nd boys
Rank in 2025 1,758th9,714th
First recorded 20121998
Girls / boys 1,472 / 50 / 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 Daevions alive today are over 16; half the Daeneryses are over 6. That is 10 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: Daenerys and Daevion.