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Davin vs Davion

American parents have registered 13,328 Davions since 1880, against 10,980 Davins. Davion is still ahead, with 139 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Davin 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

Of the 75 years in which either name was published, Davin for 41 years and Davion for 34 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Davin Davion
Total US births 10,98013,328
Most in one year 454656
Babies in 2025 48139
Estimated living today 11,00013,000
Median age today 2219
Peak year 20072007
Best rank 580th boys434th boys
Rank in 2025 2,676th1,352nd
First recorded 19491970
Girls / boys 344 / 10,636216 / 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 Davins alive today are over 22; half the Davions are over 19. That is 3 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Davin Davion
England and Wales 14113

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Davin and Davion.