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Daer vs Daevon

American parents have registered 995 Daevons since 1880, against 52 Daers. Daevon is still ahead, with 10 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Daer against Daevon, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Daer Daevon

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 40 years in which either name was published, Daevon for 38 years and Daer for 2 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Daer Daevon
Total US births 52995
Most in one year 2563
Babies in 2025 under 510
Estimated living today 50980
Median age today 621
Peak year 20192000
Best rank 4,114th boys1,758th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked7,679th
First recorded 20181983
Girls / boys 0 / 520 / 995

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 Daevons alive today are over 21; half the Daers are over 6. That is 15 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: Daer and Daevon.