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Davin vs Davon

American parents have registered 13,763 Davons since 1880, against 10,980 Davins. Davon is still ahead, with 77 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Davin against Davon, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Davin Davon

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 45 years and Davon for 30 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Davin Davon
Total US births 10,98013,763
Most in one year 454586
Babies in 2025 4877
Estimated living today 11,00013,000
Median age today 2227
Peak year 20071994
Best rank 580th boys403rd boys
Rank in 2025 2,676th1,976th
First recorded 19491961
Girls / boys 344 / 10,636367 / 13,396

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 Davons alive today are over 27; half the Davins are over 22. That is 5 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 Davon
France 15170
England and Wales 1417

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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Related comparisons

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