Meaning not yet researched.
Davon: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 77 in 2025. Its best rank was #403 in 1994.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #403 in 1994; #1,978 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Davon in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,978 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1994, at #403.
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Davon: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 77 boys in 2025. Peak: #403 in 1994 · most boys in one year: 567 (1994).
In 2025, 77 US boys were named Davon, making it the 1,978th most common boys’ name of the year, down 415 places from #1,563 in 2024. That is 34 fewer than the 111 boys named Davon in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #403, reached in 1994. That year also had the most boys given the name: 567. For comparison, it was #1,152 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Davon in 63 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1961 with 5 babies. In all, 13,763 US babies have been given the name, 2.7% of them girls and 97% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 4,875 babies named Davon.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,206 US boys were named Davon; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 166. In 2025 that was about 1 in 22,183 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Davon ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #782 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Devon (92,976 babies since 1880), Davonte (4,681 babies since 1880), Davion (13,328 babies since 1880) and Davin (10,980 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Daevon, Dayvion and Daivon 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: Daevon (995), Dayvion (812), Daivon (699), Davyn (678), Daveion (639), Davonne (591), Davone (583), Daevion (570), Davine (461), Dayveon (449), Davan (331), Davieon (329), and more.
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 Davon in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 8 | #782 | #1,000 |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,050 | #1,005 |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,140 | #742 |
| California | 7 | #2,035 | #1,387 |
| Texas | 6 | #2,343 | #1,956 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 77 | #1,978 |
| 2024 | — | — | 111 | #1,563 |
| 2023 | — | — | 103 | #1,663 |
| 2022 | — | — | 110 | #1,598 |
| 2021 | — | — | 148 | #1,281 |
| 2020 | — | — | 98 | #1,637 |
| 2019 | — | — | 131 | #1,366 |
| 2018 | — | — | 140 | #1,302 |
| 2017 | — | — | 166 | #1,144 |
| 2016 | — | — | 122 | #1,424 |
| 2015 | — | — | 163 | #1,152 |
| 2014 | — | — | 171 | #1,120 |
| 2013 | — | — | 199 | #994 |
| 2012 | — | — | 211 | #957 |
| 2011 | — | — | 202 | #975 |
| 2010 | — | — | 224 | #908 |
| 2009 | — | — | 303 | #755 |
| 2008 | — | — | 329 | #709 |
| 2007 | — | — | 362 | #663 |
| 2006 | — | — | 400 | #604 |
| 2005 | — | — | 374 | #603 |
| 2004 | — | — | 343 | #621 |
| 2003 | — | — | 368 | #590 |
| 2002 | — | — | 351 | #593 |
| 2001 | — | — | 410 | #533 |
| 2000 | — | — | 457 | #499 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,675 | 457 | #486 |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,747 | 456 | #480 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,388 | 431 | #492 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,719 | 468 | #464 |
| 1995 | 9 | #8,946 | 439 | #490 |
| 1994 | 19 | #5,074 | 567 | #403 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,214 | 536 | #422 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,232 | 490 | #449 |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,730 | 483 | #448 |
| 1990 | 21 | #4,554 | 423 | #479 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,585 | 384 | #488 |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,669 | 289 | #538 |
| 1987 | 12 | #6,015 | 271 | #552 |
| 1986 | 15 | #5,020 | 208 | #621 |
| 1985 | 21 | #3,879 | 189 | #640 |
| 1984 | 15 | #4,784 | 153 | #706 |
| 1983 | 18 | #4,149 | 144 | #719 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,644 | 141 | #735 |
| 1981 | 15 | #4,781 | 113 | #829 |
| 1980 | 14 | #5,035 | 110 | #842 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,162 | 92 | #915 |
| 1978 | 13 | #4,991 | 89 | #916 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,023 | 80 | #956 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,468 | 52 | #1,194 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,405 | 52 | #1,170 |
| 1974 | — | — | 48 | #1,202 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,635 | 29 | #1,618 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,068 | 34 | #1,460 |
| 1971 | 11 | #4,876 | 25 | #1,794 |
| 1970 | 8 | #5,938 | 18 | #2,138 |
| 1969 | 13 | #4,004 | 17 | #2,065 |
| 1968 | — | — | 6 | #3,784 |
| 1966 | 8 | #4,959 | 8 | #3,040 |
| 1965 | — | — | 5 | #4,026 |
| 1964 | — | — | 6 | #3,699 |
| 1963 | — | — | 5 | #4,186 |
| 1961 | — | — | 5 | #4,196 |
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).