Meaning not yet researched.
Davey: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 34 in 2025. Its best rank was #655 in 1929.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #655 in 1929; #3,394 in 2025. About 52% of babies named Davey in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,394 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1929, at #655.
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Davey: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 34 boys in 2025. Peak: #655 in 1929 · most boys in one year: 93 (1955).
In 2025, 34 US boys were named Davey, making it the 3,394th most common boys’ name of the year, up 144 places from #3,538 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 32 boys named Davey in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #655, reached in 1929. The most boys given the name in a single year was 93, in 1955. For comparison, it was #4,324 in 2015 and #1,089 in 1950.
In 2025, 31 US girls were named Davey, making it the 4,477th most common girls’ name of the year, up 2,223 places from #6,700 in 2024. That is 14 more than the 17 girls named Davey in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #4,477, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 31. For comparison, it was #12,124 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Davey in 99 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1925 with 5 babies. In all, 3,568 US babies have been given the name, 6.2% of them girls and 94% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 559 babies named Davey.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 266 US boys were named Davey; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 35. In 2025 that was about 1 in 50,238 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include David (3,689,613 babies since 1880), Dave (64,492 babies since 1880), Dewey (34,920 babies since 1880) and Davy (3,008 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Daveah, Daivy and Daveyah are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Daveah (162), Daivy (16), Daveyah (10), Daveya (5).
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 Davey in the open dataset we use.
Davey is listed as a nickname for Dave, David.
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 | 31 | #4,477 | 34 | #3,394 |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,700 | 32 | #3,538 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,481 | 29 | #3,816 |
| 2022 | 23 | #5,507 | 35 | #3,352 |
| 2021 | 26 | #4,994 | 31 | #3,597 |
| 2020 | 16 | #7,005 | 29 | #3,667 |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,841 | 22 | #4,516 |
| 2018 | 10 | #9,995 | 23 | #4,392 |
| 2017 | — | — | 11 | #7,209 |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,099 | 20 | #4,819 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,124 | 23 | #4,324 |
| 2014 | 6 | #15,046 | 18 | #5,106 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,525 | 18 | #5,024 |
| 2012 | — | — | 17 | #5,297 |
| 2011 | — | — | 19 | #4,855 |
| 2010 | — | — | 26 | #3,918 |
| 2009 | — | — | 14 | #6,169 |
| 2008 | — | — | 14 | #6,143 |
| 2007 | — | — | 25 | #4,034 |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,809 | 19 | #4,720 |
| 2005 | — | — | 22 | #4,086 |
| 2004 | — | — | 14 | #5,560 |
| 2003 | — | — | 15 | #5,089 |
| 2002 | — | — | 29 | #3,124 |
| 2001 | — | — | 20 | #4,003 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,593 | 14 | #5,093 |
| 1999 | — | — | 28 | #2,955 |
| 1998 | — | — | 25 | #3,115 |
| 1997 | — | — | 34 | #2,411 |
| 1996 | — | — | 32 | #2,452 |
| 1995 | — | — | 34 | #2,310 |
| 1994 | 5 | #13,971 | 75 | #1,346 |
| 1993 | — | — | 72 | #1,345 |
| 1992 | — | — | 26 | #2,684 |
| 1991 | — | — | 26 | #2,620 |
| 1990 | — | — | 20 | #3,080 |
| 1989 | — | — | 33 | #2,114 |
| 1988 | — | — | 29 | #2,155 |
| 1987 | — | — | 26 | #2,228 |
| 1986 | — | — | 27 | #2,112 |
| 1985 | — | — | 26 | #2,129 |
| 1984 | — | — | 20 | #2,454 |
| 1983 | — | — | 28 | #1,911 |
| 1982 | — | — | 38 | #1,602 |
| 1981 | — | — | 36 | #1,642 |
| 1980 | — | — | 39 | #1,551 |
| 1979 | — | — | 42 | #1,439 |
| 1978 | — | — | 59 | #1,153 |
| 1977 | — | — | 49 | #1,271 |
| 1976 | — | — | 50 | #1,227 |
| 1975 | — | — | 34 | #1,536 |
| 1974 | — | — | 38 | #1,392 |
| 1973 | — | — | 53 | #1,128 |
| 1972 | — | — | 42 | #1,291 |
| 1971 | — | — | 41 | #1,310 |
| 1970 | — | — | 57 | #1,082 |
| 1969 | — | — | 47 | #1,137 |
| 1968 | — | — | 51 | #1,036 |
| 1967 | — | — | 39 | #1,203 |
| 1966 | — | — | 32 | #1,350 |
| 1965 | — | — | 37 | #1,257 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,160 | 50 | #1,072 |
| 1963 | — | — | 61 | #964 |
| 1962 | — | — | 70 | #909 |
| 1961 | — | — | 54 | #1,061 |
| 1960 | — | — | 57 | #1,018 |
| 1959 | — | — | 58 | #1,014 |
| 1958 | — | — | 60 | #982 |
| 1957 | — | — | 41 | #1,219 |
| 1956 | — | — | 54 | #1,020 |
| 1955 | — | — | 93 | #757 |
| 1954 | — | — | 55 | #1,010 |
| 1953 | — | — | 74 | #836 |
| 1952 | — | — | 44 | #1,098 |
| 1951 | — | — | 38 | #1,175 |
| 1950 | — | — | 42 | #1,089 |
| 1949 | — | — | 50 | #986 |
| 1948 | — | — | 42 | #1,095 |
| 1947 | — | — | 37 | #1,193 |
| 1946 | — | — | 25 | #1,414 |
| 1945 | — | — | 15 | #1,797 |
| 1944 | — | — | 10 | #2,342 |
| 1943 | 5 | #4,826 | 19 | #1,652 |
| 1942 | — | — | 18 | #1,692 |
| 1941 | — | — | 17 | #1,706 |
| 1940 | — | — | 8 | #2,709 |
| 1939 | — | — | 16 | #1,736 |
| 1938 | — | — | 14 | #1,918 |
| 1937 | — | — | 15 | #1,841 |
| 1936 | — | — | 9 | #2,487 |
| 1935 | — | — | 17 | #1,721 |
| 1934 | — | — | 22 | #1,469 |
| 1933 | — | — | 15 | #1,846 |
| 1932 | — | — | 26 | #1,362 |
| 1931 | — | — | 45 | #985 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,703 | 54 | #911 |
| 1929 | — | — | 89 | #655 |
| 1928 | — | — | 9 | #2,898 |
| 1925 | — | — | 5 | #4,351 |
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).