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Daisey vs Daivd

American parents have registered 2,520 Daiseys since 1880, against 1,026 Daivds. Daisey is still ahead, with 20 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Daisey against Daivd, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Daisey Daivd

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 144 years in which either name was published, Daisey for 112 years and Daivd for 32 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Daisey Daivd
Total US births 2,5201,026
Most in one year 5541
Babies in 2025 20under 5
Estimated living today 1,600870
Median age today 2848
Peak year 20001982
Best rank 2,672nd girls1,514th boys
Rank in 2025 5,917thunranked
First recorded 18801938
Girls / boys 2,520 / 00 / 1,026

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 Daivds alive today are over 48; half the Daiseys are over 28. That is 20 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: Daisey and Daivd.