Meaning not yet researched.
Daven: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 28 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,462 in 2002.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,462 in 2002; #3,865 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Daven in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,865 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2002, at #1,462.
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Daven: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 28 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,462 in 2002 · most boys in one year: 104 (2007).
In 2025, 28 US boys were named Daven, making it the 3,865th most common boys’ name of the year, up 726 places from #4,591 in 2024. That is 6 more than the 22 boys named Daven in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,462, reached in 2002. The most boys given the name in a single year was 104, in 2007. For comparison, it was #2,930 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Daven in 66 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1955 with 5 babies. In all, 2,635 US babies have been given the name, 3.5% of them girls and 97% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 867 babies named Daven.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 327 US boys were named Daven; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 42. In 2025 that was about 1 in 61,003 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Davon (13,763 babies since 1880), Davion (13,328 babies since 1880), Davin (10,980 babies since 1880) and Davian (6,820 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Daven in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 28 | #3,865 |
| 2024 | — | — | 22 | #4,591 |
| 2023 | — | — | 30 | #3,732 |
| 2022 | — | — | 34 | #3,425 |
| 2021 | — | — | 26 | #4,036 |
| 2020 | — | — | 38 | #3,032 |
| 2019 | — | — | 29 | #3,738 |
| 2018 | — | — | 38 | #3,063 |
| 2017 | — | — | 42 | #2,850 |
| 2016 | — | — | 40 | #2,944 |
| 2015 | — | — | 40 | #2,930 |
| 2014 | — | — | 60 | #2,238 |
| 2013 | — | — | 55 | #2,309 |
| 2012 | — | — | 65 | #2,094 |
| 2011 | — | — | 73 | #1,908 |
| 2010 | — | — | 79 | #1,838 |
| 2009 | — | — | 83 | #1,800 |
| 2008 | — | — | 85 | #1,763 |
| 2007 | 5 | #18,325 | 104 | #1,517 |
| 2006 | — | — | 96 | #1,544 |
| 2005 | — | — | 93 | #1,527 |
| 2004 | — | — | 86 | #1,542 |
| 2003 | — | — | 78 | #1,616 |
| 2002 | — | — | 87 | #1,462 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,384 | 69 | #1,680 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,591 | 68 | #1,684 |
| 1999 | — | — | 67 | #1,609 |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,710 | 47 | #2,018 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,022 | 55 | #1,759 |
| 1996 | — | — | 59 | #1,642 |
| 1995 | — | — | 55 | #1,652 |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,847 | 57 | #1,612 |
| 1993 | — | — | 50 | #1,724 |
| 1992 | — | — | 48 | #1,750 |
| 1991 | 9 | #8,769 | 48 | #1,704 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,659 | 30 | #2,325 |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,861 | 39 | #1,900 |
| 1988 | — | — | 28 | #2,208 |
| 1987 | — | — | 26 | #2,227 |
| 1986 | — | — | 25 | #2,239 |
| 1985 | — | — | 30 | #1,925 |
| 1984 | — | — | 20 | #2,453 |
| 1983 | — | — | 27 | #1,969 |
| 1982 | — | — | 25 | #2,128 |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,790 | 14 | #3,073 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,349 | 21 | #2,383 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,468 | 19 | #2,486 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,284 | 18 | #2,500 |
| 1977 | — | — | 21 | #2,220 |
| 1976 | — | — | 9 | #3,781 |
| 1975 | — | — | 14 | #2,785 |
| 1974 | — | — | 16 | #2,489 |
| 1973 | — | — | 16 | #2,424 |
| 1972 | — | — | 7 | #4,069 |
| 1971 | — | — | 10 | #3,191 |
| 1970 | — | — | 10 | #3,116 |
| 1969 | — | — | 10 | #2,906 |
| 1968 | — | — | 15 | #2,130 |
| 1967 | — | — | 9 | #2,815 |
| 1966 | — | — | 8 | #3,039 |
| 1965 | — | — | 7 | #3,309 |
| 1964 | — | — | 10 | #2,704 |
| 1962 | — | — | 6 | #3,725 |
| 1961 | — | — | 7 | #3,427 |
| 1958 | — | — | 7 | #3,343 |
| 1955 | — | — | 5 | #3,991 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).