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Daveigh vs Davion

American parents have registered 13,328 Davions since 1880, against 173 Daveighs. Davion is still ahead, with 139 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Daveigh Davion

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

Davion has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1970 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2003, when Daveigh had 22 and Davion had 496.

Side by side

  Daveigh Davion
Total US births 17313,328
Most in one year 22656
Babies in 2025 under 5139
Estimated living today 17013,000
Median age today 1719
Peak year 20032007
Best rank 5,419th girls434th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked1,352nd
First recorded 20031970
Girls / boys 173 / 0216 / 13,112

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 Davions alive today are over 19; half the Daveighs are over 17. That is 2 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: Daveigh and Davion.