Daven
- Last seen for girls in 2007 at #17,636
- #3,848 for boys in 2025, 28 births
- Given to boys 96.5% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 2002 · 87 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,543since 1955
Daven over time
boys
Rank among boys' names. Daven has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #3,848 | 28 | |
| 2024 | — | #4,571 | 22 | |
| 2023 | — | #3,712 | 30 | |
| 2022 | — | #3,412 | 34 | |
| 2021 | — | #4,011 | 26 | |
| 2020 | — | #3,025 | 38 | |
| 2019 | — | #3,716 | 29 | |
| 2018 | — | #3,055 | 38 | |
| 2017 | — | #2,840 | 42 | |
| 2016 | — | #2,935 | 40 | |
| 2015 | — | #2,919 | 40 | |
| 2014 | — | #2,230 | 60 | |
| 2013 | — | #2,299 | 55 | |
| 2012 | — | #2,091 | 65 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,905 | 73 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,834 | 79 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,797 | 83 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,760 | 85 | |
| 2007 | #17,636 | 5 | #1,516 | 104 |
| 2006 | — | #1,543 | 96 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,525 | 93 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,542 | 86 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,611 | 78 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,459 | 87 | |
| 2001 | #12,056 | 7 | #1,677 | 69 |
| 2000 | #13,154 | 6 | #1,681 | 68 |
| 1999 | — | #1,604 | 67 | |
| 1998 | #14,122 | 5 | #2,012 | 47 |
| 1997 | #9,802 | 8 | #1,753 | 55 |
| 1996 | — | #1,638 | 59 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,648 | 55 | |
| 1994 | #10,569 | 7 | #1,608 | 57 |
| 1993 | — | #1,721 | 50 | |
| 1992 | — | #1,750 | 48 | |
| 1991 | #8,588 | 9 | #1,699 | 48 |
| 1990 | #8,501 | 9 | #2,308 | 30 |
| 1989 | #12,362 | 5 | #1,891 | 39 |
| 1988 | — | #2,197 | 28 | |
| 1987 | — | #2,215 | 26 | |
| 1986 | — | #2,226 | 25 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,916 | 30 | |
| 1984 | — | #2,437 | 20 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,955 | 27 | |
| 1982 | — | #2,111 | 25 | |
| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 | #3,030 | 14 |
| 1980 | #9,095 | 6 | #2,367 | 21 |
| 1979 | #7,313 | 8 | #2,465 | 19 |
| 1978 | #5,214 | 12 | #2,473 | 18 |
| 1977 | — | #2,202 | 21 | |
| 1976 | — | #3,724 | 9 | |
| 1975 | — | #2,751 | 14 | |
| 1974 | — | #2,459 | 16 | |
| 1973 | — | #2,405 | 16 | |
| 1972 | — | #3,963 | 7 | |
| 1971 | — | #3,146 | 10 | |
| 1970 | — | #3,071 | 10 | |
| 1969 | — | #2,861 | 10 | |
| 1968 | — | #2,109 | 15 | |
| 1967 | — | #2,760 | 9 | |
| 1966 | — | #2,986 | 8 | |
| 1965 | — | #3,244 | 7 | |
| 1964 | — | #2,665 | 10 | |
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| 1962 | — | #3,640 | 6 | |
| 1961 | — | #3,356 | 7 | |
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| 1958 | — | #3,275 | 7 | |
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| 1955 | — | #3,886 | 5 | |
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First appearance
1955
The first year at least five boys were named Daven! It came in at #3,886, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1955–1957, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Daven is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Daven in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Daven
Momentum · boys
Falling
- 723 spots since 2024 (#4,571 → #3,848)
- 823 spots since 2020 (#3,025 → #3,848)
Rise & fade · boys
47 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1955
- Peaked 2002 at #1,459 (87 births)
- Births halved by 2015, 13 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 19,956
- Highest: 1 in 19,956 boys born in 2007 were named Daven (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 61,003 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,459 in 2002, was only 1 in 22,316 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2000s
- 33.4% of all boys named Daven (849) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 12 | #3,275 (1958) | #3,581 |
| 1960s | 72 | #2,109 (1968) | #2,953 |
| 1970s | 140 | #2,202 (1977) | #2,866 |
| 1980s | 255 | #1,891 (1989) | #2,235 |
| 1990s | 516 | #1,604 (1999) | #1,774 |
| 2000s | 849 | #1,459 (2002) | #1,611 |
| 2010s | 521 | #1,834 (2010) | #2,582 |
| 2020s | 178 | #3,025 (2020) | #3,763 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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