Davian
Davian was given to 137 boys in 2025, #1,363 among boys’ names; 6,820 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,730 Americans named Davian and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 9 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Davian by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Davian mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Davian is “a male given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Davian?
#1,363 among boys’ names, 2025
Davian fell from #871 in 2015 to #1,363 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.13 to 0.08 per 1,000.
378 babies in 2007, the peak
Davian peaked in 2007, when 378 boys were given it, #642 among boys’ names. The 137 births of 2025 are 36% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 137 | #1,363 | 0.08 |
| 2024 | 134 | #1,397 | 0.08 |
| 2023 | 175 | #1,173 | 0.10 |
| 2022 | 234 | #968 | 0.13 |
| 2021 | 218 | #1,003 | 0.12 |
| 2020 | 219 | #977 | 0.13 |
| 2019 | 204 | #1,019 | 0.11 |
| 2018 | 210 | #988 | 0.12 |
| 2017 | 221 | #945 | 0.12 |
| 2016 | 207 | #987 | 0.11 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 255 | #871 | 0.13 |
| 2014 | 311 | #756 | 0.16 |
| 2013 | 289 | #778 | 0.15 |
| 2012 | 292 | #777 | 0.15 |
| 2011 | 289 | #777 | 0.15 |
| 2010 | 332 | #703 | 0.17 |
| 2009 | 335 | #710 | 0.17 |
| 2008 | 342 | #694 | 0.17 |
| 2007 | 378 | #642 | 0.18 |
| 2006 | 331 | #681 | 0.16 |
| 2005 | 309 | #678 | 0.15 |
| 2004 | 222 | #812 | 0.11 |
| 2003 | 124 | #1,190 | 0.06 |
| 2002 | 121 | #1,168 | 0.06 |
| 2001 | 105 | #1,264 | 0.05 |
| 2000 | 92 | #1,368 | 0.05 |
| 1999 | 85 | #1,384 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 69 | #1,543 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 55 | #1,757 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 61 | #1,598 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 48 | #1,806 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 26 | #2,779 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 34 | #2,256 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 33 | #2,257 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 20 | #3,131 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 17 | #3,487 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 15 | #3,654 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 10 | #4,511 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 10 | #4,311 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 13 | #3,480 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 10 | #4,114 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 11 | #3,755 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 10 | #3,933 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 8 | #4,683 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 8 | #4,614 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 13 | #3,296 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 11 | #3,618 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 15 | #2,821 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 12 | #3,237 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 8 | #4,086 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 7 | #4,418 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 6 | #4,751 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 8 | #3,701 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,349 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Davian a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 6,820 Americans recorded as Davian, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 137 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Davian: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Davian, and how old are they?
6,730 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 6,820 Americans ever recorded as Davian. The median Davian alive today is 15 years old; half are between 9 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 4,729 people named Davian (166 women and girls, 4,563 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,689 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 86 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 331 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,510 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,800 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Davian born?
The states with the most babies named Davian are California, Texas and Florida, with 54% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 22 | #995 | 1.2× |
| Texas | 15 | #1,310 | 1.5× |
| Florida | 15 | #921 | 1.3× |
| New York | 9 | #1,228 | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #867 | 0.6× |
| Arizona | 6 | #865 | 1.4× |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #715 | 1.5× |
| Colorado | 5 | #881 | 1.8× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,336 | 0.7× |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,063 | 0.7× |
Where Davian is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Davian is most over-represented in New Mexico: since 1970 it was given 2.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Davian with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 52,333 babies since 1880, Davian is the fourth most given (13% of them). In 2025 it was given to 137 of their 481 babies (28%), the second most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Davian
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Davian and names like it
- Compare Davian and DavonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDavian peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Davian since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Davian.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Davian alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.