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Davin vs Davis

American parents have registered 33,114 Davises since 1880, against 10,980 Davins. Davis is still ahead, with 434 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Davin Davis

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 146 years in which either name was published, Davis for 141 years and Davin for 5 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Davin Davis
Total US births 10,98033,114
Most in one year 454773
Babies in 2025 48434
Estimated living today 11,00027,000
Median age today 2221
Peak year 20072007
Best rank 580th boys395th boys
Rank in 2025 2,676th668th
First recorded 19491880
Girls / boys 344 / 10,6361,038 / 32,076

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.

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 Davis
England and Wales 141253
Ireland 34029
France 15320
Switzerland 11270

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 Davis.