Meaning not yet researched.
Davy: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 20 in 2025. Its best rank was #4,183 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #4,183 in 2021; #5,966 in 2025. About 51% of babies named Davy in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,966 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #4,183.
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Davy: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 20 girls in 2025. Peak: #4,183 in 2021 · most girls in one year: 34 (2021).
In 2025, 20 US girls were named Davy, making it the 5,966th most common girls’ name of the year, up 31 places from #5,997 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 20 girls named Davy in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #4,183, reached in 2021. That year also had the most girls given the name: 34. For comparison, it was #10,327 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 19 US boys were named Davy, making it the 5,078th most common boys’ name of the year, down 2,238 places from #2,840 in 2024. That is 26 fewer than the 45 boys named Davy in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #525, reached in 1955. That year also had the most boys given the name: 195. For comparison, it was #6,415 in 2015 and #1,440 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Davy in 101 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1917 with 5 babies. In all, 3,008 US babies have been given the name, 11% of them girls and 89% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 586 babies named Davy.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 192 US girls were named Davy; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 34. In 2025 that was about 1 in 80,363 of the girls 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), Davey (3,568 babies since 1880) and Davie (4,377 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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 Davy 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 | 20 | #5,966 | 19 | #5,078 |
| 2024 | 20 | #5,997 | 45 | #2,840 |
| 2023 | 24 | #5,285 | 24 | #4,371 |
| 2022 | 22 | #5,682 | 24 | #4,332 |
| 2021 | 34 | #4,183 | 24 | #4,272 |
| 2020 | 16 | #7,006 | 33 | #3,356 |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,232 | 23 | #4,365 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,872 | 11 | #7,240 |
| 2017 | 8 | #11,922 | 14 | #6,112 |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,026 | 13 | #6,438 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,327 | 13 | #6,415 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,222 | 20 | #4,737 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,526 | 11 | #7,142 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,629 | 16 | #5,530 |
| 2011 | — | — | 15 | #5,734 |
| 2010 | 5 | #17,676 | 13 | #6,427 |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,995 | 19 | #4,965 |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,892 | 15 | #5,834 |
| 2007 | — | — | 21 | #4,533 |
| 2006 | — | — | 16 | #5,359 |
| 2005 | 5 | #17,152 | 10 | #7,231 |
| 2004 | — | — | 10 | #7,092 |
| 2003 | — | — | 12 | #5,954 |
| 2002 | — | — | 9 | #7,169 |
| 2001 | — | — | 11 | #6,111 |
| 2000 | — | — | 12 | #5,647 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,591 | 13 | #5,094 |
| 1998 | — | — | 9 | #6,435 |
| 1997 | — | — | 19 | #3,626 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,214 | 15 | #4,225 |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,971 | 15 | #4,098 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,168 | 17 | #3,785 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,027 | 22 | #3,070 |
| 1992 | — | — | 15 | #3,960 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,544 | 18 | #3,363 |
| 1990 | — | — | 19 | #3,198 |
| 1989 | — | — | 15 | #3,661 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,681 | 24 | #2,456 |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,738 | 25 | #2,286 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,257 | 27 | #2,113 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,055 | 28 | #2,027 |
| 1984 | — | — | 10 | #3,991 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,462 | 20 | #2,429 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,433 | 30 | #1,864 |
| 1981 | — | — | 34 | #1,699 |
| 1980 | — | — | 44 | #1,435 |
| 1979 | — | — | 28 | #1,911 |
| 1978 | — | — | 41 | #1,457 |
| 1977 | — | — | 53 | #1,215 |
| 1976 | — | — | 45 | #1,323 |
| 1975 | — | — | 39 | #1,414 |
| 1974 | — | — | 46 | #1,233 |
| 1973 | — | — | 55 | #1,096 |
| 1972 | — | — | 54 | #1,112 |
| 1971 | — | — | 51 | #1,152 |
| 1970 | — | — | 46 | #1,226 |
| 1969 | — | — | 48 | #1,129 |
| 1968 | — | — | 57 | #974 |
| 1967 | — | — | 43 | #1,137 |
| 1966 | — | — | 22 | #1,660 |
| 1965 | — | — | 26 | #1,526 |
| 1964 | — | — | 35 | #1,335 |
| 1963 | — | — | 34 | #1,341 |
| 1962 | — | — | 48 | #1,110 |
| 1961 | — | — | 49 | #1,124 |
| 1960 | — | — | 48 | #1,133 |
| 1959 | — | — | 48 | #1,118 |
| 1958 | — | — | 61 | #972 |
| 1957 | — | — | 54 | #1,029 |
| 1956 | — | — | 92 | #771 |
| 1955 | — | — | 195 | #525 |
| 1954 | — | — | 32 | #1,336 |
| 1953 | — | — | 30 | #1,382 |
| 1952 | — | — | 26 | #1,492 |
| 1951 | — | — | 22 | #1,608 |
| 1950 | — | — | 26 | #1,440 |
| 1949 | — | — | 16 | #1,881 |
| 1948 | — | — | 24 | #1,498 |
| 1947 | — | — | 23 | #1,566 |
| 1946 | — | — | 16 | #1,834 |
| 1945 | — | — | 9 | #2,434 |
| 1944 | — | — | 11 | #2,221 |
| 1943 | — | — | 16 | #1,851 |
| 1942 | — | — | 17 | #1,751 |
| 1941 | — | — | 11 | #2,234 |
| 1940 | — | — | 20 | #1,530 |
| 1939 | — | — | 15 | #1,813 |
| 1938 | — | — | 9 | #2,519 |
| 1937 | — | — | 12 | #2,109 |
| 1936 | — | — | 10 | #2,328 |
| 1935 | — | — | 12 | #2,156 |
| 1934 | — | — | 13 | #2,041 |
| 1933 | — | — | 16 | #1,784 |
| 1932 | — | — | 13 | #2,124 |
| 1931 | — | — | 18 | #1,713 |
| 1930 | — | — | 30 | #1,309 |
| 1929 | — | — | 25 | #1,452 |
| 1927 | — | — | 5 | #4,336 |
| 1924 | — | — | 5 | #4,495 |
| 1922 | — | — | 5 | #4,451 |
| 1917 | — | — | 5 | #4,117 |
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).