Davy
#5,917 for girls in 2025, 20 births · #5,045 for boys in 2025, 19 births
Given to boys 89.2% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1955 · 195 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,682since 1917
Davy over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,917 | 20 | #5,045 | 19 |
| 2024 | #5,962 | 20 | #2,835 | 45 |
| 2023 | #5,248 | 24 | #4,343 | 24 |
| 2022 | #5,638 | 22 | #4,303 | 24 |
| 2021 | #4,167 | 34 | #4,247 | 24 |
| 2020 | #6,923 | 16 | #3,344 | 33 |
| 2019 | #6,176 | 19 | #4,337 | 23 |
| 2018 | #6,792 | 17 | #7,136 | 11 |
| 2017 | #11,615 | 8 | #6,060 | 14 |
| 2016 | #8,875 | 12 | #6,349 | 13 |
| 2015 | #10,148 | 10 | #6,324 | 13 |
| 2014 | #10,955 | 9 | #4,702 | 20 |
| 2013 | #13,150 | 7 | #7,026 | 11 |
| 2012 | #10,429 | 10 | #5,482 | 16 |
| 2011 | — | #5,675 | 15 | |
| 2010 | #16,992 | 5 | #6,359 | 13 |
| 2009 | #17,294 | 5 | #4,922 | 19 |
| 2008 | #15,405 | 6 | #5,767 | 15 |
| 2007 | — | #4,493 | 21 | |
| 2006 | — | #5,303 | 16 | |
| 2005 | #16,462 | 5 | #7,096 | 10 |
| 2004 | — | #6,976 | 10 | |
| 2003 | — | #5,877 | 12 | |
| 2002 | — | #7,055 | 9 | |
| 2001 | — | #6,013 | 11 | |
| 2000 | — | #5,588 | 12 | |
| 1999 | #10,345 | 8 | #5,035 | 13 |
| 1998 | — | #6,314 | 9 | |
| 1997 | — | #3,601 | 19 | |
| 1996 | #11,807 | 6 | #4,185 | 15 |
| 1995 | #13,386 | 5 | #4,052 | 15 |
| 1994 | #11,778 | 6 | #3,751 | 17 |
| 1993 | #13,442 | 5 | #3,042 | 22 |
| 1992 | — | #3,920 | 15 | |
| 1991 | #10,271 | 7 | #3,325 | 18 |
| 1990 | — | #3,166 | 19 | |
| 1989 | — | #3,618 | 15 | |
| 1988 | #10,386 | 6 | #2,437 | 24 |
| 1987 | #11,325 | 5 | #2,272 | 25 |
| 1986 | #7,134 | 9 | #2,096 | 27 |
| 1985 | #10,677 | 5 | #2,019 | 28 |
| 1984 | — | #3,925 | 10 | |
| 1983 | #7,312 | 8 | #2,408 | 20 |
| 1982 | #8,224 | 7 | #1,850 | 30 |
| 1981 | — | #1,695 | 34 | |
| 1980 | — | #1,432 | 44 | |
| 1979 | — | #1,903 | 28 | |
| 1978 | — | #1,452 | 41 | |
| 1977 | — | #1,210 | 53 | |
| 1976 | — | #1,320 | 45 | |
| 1975 | — | #1,407 | 39 | |
| 1974 | — | #1,229 | 46 | |
| 1973 | — | #1,093 | 55 | |
| 1972 | — | #1,107 | 54 | |
| 1971 | — | #1,150 | 51 | |
| 1970 | — | #1,222 | 46 | |
| 1969 | — | #1,124 | 48 | |
| 1968 | — | #968 | 57 | |
| 1967 | — | #1,132 | 43 | |
| 1966 | — | #1,650 | 22 | |
| 1965 | — | #1,513 | 26 | |
| 1964 | — | #1,327 | 35 | |
| 1963 | — | #1,338 | 34 | |
| 1962 | — | #1,108 | 48 | |
| 1961 | — | #1,121 | 49 | |
| 1960 | — | #1,131 | 48 | |
| 1959 | — | #1,117 | 48 | |
| 1958 | — | #969 | 61 | |
| 1957 | — | #1,029 | 54 | |
| 1956 | — | #770 | 92 | |
| 1955 | — | #525 | 195 | |
| 1954 | — | #1,333 | 32 | |
| 1953 | — | #1,378 | 30 | |
| 1952 | — | #1,485 | 26 | |
| 1951 | — | #1,598 | 22 | |
| 1950 | — | #1,434 | 26 | |
| 1949 | — | #1,872 | 16 | |
| 1948 | — | #1,487 | 24 | |
| 1947 | — | #1,555 | 23 | |
| 1946 | — | #1,813 | 16 | |
| 1945 | — | #2,393 | 9 | |
| 1944 | — | #2,195 | 11 | |
| 1943 | — | #1,833 | 16 | |
| 1942 | — | #1,730 | 17 | |
| 1941 | — | #2,207 | 11 | |
| 1940 | — | #1,519 | 20 | |
| 1939 | — | #1,795 | 15 | |
| 1938 | — | #2,479 | 9 | |
| 1937 | — | #2,088 | 12 | |
| 1936 | — | #2,301 | 10 | |
| 1935 | — | #2,127 | 12 | |
| 1934 | — | #2,022 | 13 | |
| 1933 | — | #1,770 | 16 | |
| 1932 | — | #2,101 | 13 | |
| 1931 | — | #1,693 | 18 | |
| 1930 | — | #1,299 | 30 | |
| 1929 | — | #1,443 | 25 | |
| 1928 | — | — | ||
| 1927 | — | #4,210 | 5 | |
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| 1924 | — | #4,347 | 5 | |
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| 1922 | — | #4,307 | 5 | |
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| 1917 | — | #3,981 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Davy! It came in at #3,981, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1917–1928, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Davy is popular in 1957
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- North Carolina#432 · 1 in 6,779
Best ever in a state: #269 in West Virginia, 1955.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | #432 | 8 | 1 in 6,779 |
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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 Davy
- 2,210 spots since 2024 (#2,835 → #5,045)
- 1,701 spots since 2020 (#3,344 → #5,045)
- 1,279 spots since 2015 (#6,324 → #5,045)
- Biggest jump: 808 spots in 1955 (#1,333 → #525)
- Biggest drop: 259 spots in 1957 (#770 → #1,029)
- Debuted 1917
- Peaked 1955 at #525 (195 births)
- Births halved by 1956, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 4 yrs · run 1955–1956
- Highest: 1 in 10,564 boys born in 1955 were named Davy (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 89,899 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 21.8% of all boys named Davy (586) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 2024, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | #3,981 (1917) | #3,981 |
| 1920s | 40 | #1,443 (1929) | #3,577 |
| 1930s | 148 | #1,299 (1930) | #1,968 |
| 1940s | 163 | #1,487 (1948) | #1,860 |
| 1950s | 586 | #525 (1955) | #1,164 |
| 1960s | 410 | #968 (1968) | #1,241 |
| 1970s | 458 | #1,093 (1973) | #1,309 |
| 1980s | 257 | #1,432 (1980) | #2,375 |
| 1990s | 162 | #3,042 (1993) | #4,039 |
| 2000s | 135 | #4,493 (2007) | #5,909 |
| 2010s | 149 | #4,337 (2019) | #5,945 |
| 2020s | 169 | #2,835 (2024) | #4,020 |
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.
Davy in 1957
Top boys' names in 1957
More about 1957
boys
2,157,236 boys got a published name in 1957; 1 in 39,949 of them was named Davy, which outranked 77.4% of the 4,552 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 30.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,022Rudolfo55
- #1,022Vernell55
- #1,022Walton55
- #1,029Davy54
- #1,029Edsel54
- #1,029Eldridge54
- #1,029Franklyn54
- #1,041Adan53
- #1,041Dario53
- #1,041Diane53
Tied with 11 names at #1,029; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.