Davon
Last seen for girls in 1999 at #11,385 · #1,976 for boys in 2025, 77 births
Given to boys 97.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1994 · 567 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 13,396since 1961
Davon over time
Rank among boys' names. Davon has never cracked the top 400 here.
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 | — | #1,976 | 77 | |
| 2024 | — | #1,563 | 111 | |
| 2023 | — | #1,662 | 103 | |
| 2022 | — | #1,597 | 110 | |
| 2021 | — | #1,280 | 148 | |
| 2020 | — | #1,634 | 98 | |
| 2019 | — | #1,365 | 131 | |
| 2018 | — | #1,299 | 140 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,141 | 166 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,421 | 122 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,152 | 163 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,117 | 171 | |
| 2013 | — | #993 | 199 | |
| 2012 | — | #957 | 211 | |
| 2011 | — | #974 | 202 | |
| 2010 | — | #908 | 224 | |
| 2009 | — | #755 | 303 | |
| 2008 | — | #708 | 329 | |
| 2007 | — | #662 | 362 | |
| 2006 | — | #604 | 400 | |
| 2005 | — | #603 | 374 | |
| 2004 | — | #621 | 343 | |
| 2003 | — | #589 | 368 | |
| 2002 | — | #593 | 351 | |
| 2001 | — | #533 | 410 | |
| 2000 | — | #499 | 457 | |
| 1999 | #11,385 | 7 | #486 | 457 |
| 1998 | #8,584 | 10 | #480 | 456 |
| 1997 | #7,283 | 12 | #492 | 431 |
| 1996 | #7,574 | 11 | #464 | 468 |
| 1995 | #8,766 | 9 | #490 | 439 |
| 1994 | #5,016 | 19 | #403 | 567 |
| 1993 | #8,052 | 10 | #422 | 536 |
| 1992 | #8,065 | 10 | #449 | 490 |
| 1991 | #5,659 | 16 | #448 | 483 |
| 1990 | #4,523 | 21 | #479 | 423 |
| 1989 | #7,449 | 10 | #488 | 384 |
| 1988 | #5,598 | 14 | #538 | 289 |
| 1987 | #5,923 | 12 | #552 | 271 |
| 1986 | #4,964 | 15 | #621 | 208 |
| 1985 | #3,852 | 21 | #639 | 189 |
| 1984 | #4,737 | 15 | #706 | 153 |
| 1983 | #4,109 | 18 | #719 | 144 |
| 1982 | #7,469 | 8 | #732 | 141 |
| 1981 | #4,746 | 15 | #826 | 113 |
| 1980 | #4,978 | 14 | #841 | 110 |
| 1979 | #5,092 | 13 | #914 | 92 |
| 1978 | #4,931 | 13 | #914 | 89 |
| 1977 | #6,892 | 8 | #954 | 80 |
| 1976 | #7,296 | 7 | #1,190 | 52 |
| 1975 | #9,067 | 5 | #1,170 | 52 |
| 1974 | — | #1,198 | 48 | |
| 1973 | #7,435 | 6 | #1,612 | 29 |
| 1972 | #5,959 | 8 | #1,453 | 34 |
| 1971 | #4,810 | 11 | #1,784 | 25 |
| 1970 | #5,818 | 8 | #2,125 | 18 |
| 1969 | #3,958 | 13 | #2,046 | 17 |
| 1968 | — | #3,673 | 6 | |
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| 1966 | #4,866 | 8 | #2,986 | 8 |
| 1965 | — | #3,930 | 5 | |
| 1964 | — | #3,601 | 6 | |
| 1963 | — | #4,048 | 5 | |
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| 1961 | — | #4,065 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Davon! It came in at #4,065, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1961–1963, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Davon is popular in 2008
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- District of Columbia#136 · 1 in 471
- Louisiana#300 · 1 in 1,479
- Maryland#300 · 1 in 1,661
- Virginia#410 · 1 in 2,686
- Kentucky#417 · 1 in 2,953
Best ever in a state: #40 in District of Columbia, 1994.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | #136 | 9 | 1 in 471 |
| Louisiana | #300 | 17 | 1 in 1,479 |
| Maryland | #300 | 18 | 1 in 1,661 |
| Virginia | #410 | 16 | 1 in 2,686 |
| Kentucky | #417 | 8 | 1 in 2,953 |
| Ohio | #476 | 18 | 1 in 3,580 |
| Indiana | #478 | 12 | 1 in 3,191 |
| Pennsylvania | #519 | 16 | 1 in 3,992 |
| New Jersey | #528 | 12 | 1 in 3,799 |
| Missouri | #554 | 9 | 1 in 3,835 |
| Florida | #578 | 25 | 1 in 4,020 |
| South Carolina | #589 | 6 | 1 in 3,834 |
| Michigan | #593 | 12 | 1 in 4,284 |
| Tennessee | #633 | 8 | 1 in 4,715 |
| Wisconsin | #642 | 6 | 1 in 4,893 |
| Illinois | #667 | 15 | 1 in 4,984 |
| Massachusetts | #679 | 5 | 1 in 6,404 |
| North Carolina | #691 | 10 | 1 in 5,571 |
| Alabama | #692 | 5 | 1 in 5,021 |
| Georgia | #706 | 12 | 1 in 5,099 |
| Arizona | #808 | 6 | 1 in 7,234 |
| Washington | #885 | 5 | 1 in 7,449 |
| New York | #928 | 13 | 1 in 8,393 |
| Texas | #933 | 20 | 1 in 9,460 |
| California | #1,112 | 18 | 1 in 14,121 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Davon
- 413 spots since 2024 (#1,563 → #1,976)
- 342 spots since 2020 (#1,634 → #1,976)
- 824 spots since 2015 (#1,152 → #1,976)
- Biggest jump: 236 spots in 1977 (#1,190 → #954)
- Biggest drop: 153 spots in 2010 (#755 → #908)
- Debuted 1961
- Peaked 1994 at #403 (567 births)
- Births halved by 2010, 16 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 37 yrs · run 1977–2013
- Highest: 1 in 3,407 boys born in 1994 were named Davon (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 22,183 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 35.5% of all boys named Davon (4,750) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 52 | #2,046 (1969) | #3,478 |
| 1970s | 519 | #914 (1979) | #1,331 |
| 1980s | 2,002 | #488 (1989) | #666 |
| 1990s | 4,750 | #403 (1994) | #461 |
| 2000s | 3,697 | #499 (2000) | #617 |
| 2010s | 1,729 | #908 (2010) | #1,133 |
| 2020s | 647 | #1,280 (2021) | #1,619 |
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.
Davon in 2008
Top boys' names in 2008
More about 2008
boys
2,040,150 boys got a published name in 2008; 1 in 6,201 of them was named Davon, which outranked 95.2% of the 14,625 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).