Davidson
Davidson was given to 27 boys in 2025, #3,971 among boys’ names; 1,144 Americans have been recorded with it since 1924 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,100 Americans named Davidson and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 11 and 33.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Davidson by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Davidson?
#3,971 among boys’ names, 2025
Davidson fell from #3,446 in 2015 to #3,971 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 16.7 to 15.8 per million.
38 babies in 2009, the peak
Davidson peaked in 2009, when 38 boys were given it, #3,062 among boys’ names. The 27 births of 2025 are 71% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27 | #3,971 | 15.8 |
| 2024 | 16 | #5,714 | 9.3 |
| 2023 | 28 | #3,911 | 16.4 |
| 2022 | 33 | #3,477 | 18.9 |
| 2021 | 24 | #4,267 | 13.7 |
| 2020 | 17 | #5,294 | 9.8 |
| 2019 | 29 | #3,736 | 16.2 |
| 2018 | 20 | #4,781 | 11.0 |
| 2017 | 38 | #3,080 | 20.5 |
| 2016 | 31 | #3,542 | 16.3 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 32 | #3,446 | 16.7 |
| 2014 | 32 | #3,387 | 16.7 |
| 2013 | 19 | #4,838 | 10.0 |
| 2012 | 25 | #4,035 | 13.2 |
| 2011 | 35 | #3,179 | 18.4 |
| 2010 | 25 | #4,017 | 13.0 |
| 2009 | 38 | #3,062 | 19.2 |
| 2008 | 22 | #4,426 | 10.8 |
| 2007 | 24 | #4,143 | 11.6 |
| 2006 | 23 | #4,121 | 11.2 |
| 2005 | 32 | #3,179 | 16.0 |
| 2004 | 35 | #2,899 | 17.6 |
| 2003 | 22 | #3,866 | 11.1 |
| 2002 | 30 | #3,029 | 15.5 |
| 2001 | 27 | #3,243 | 13.9 |
| 2000 | 19 | #4,087 | 9.7 |
| 1999 | 29 | #2,879 | 15.1 |
| 1998 | 16 | #4,243 | 8.4 |
| 1997 | 19 | #3,620 | 10.1 |
| 1996 | 16 | #4,047 | 8.4 |
| 1995 | 17 | #3,727 | 8.9 |
| 1994 | 31 | #2,449 | 16.0 |
| 1993 | 16 | #3,856 | 8.2 |
| 1992 | 21 | #3,130 | 10.5 |
| 1991 | 18 | #3,355 | 8.9 |
| 1990 | 17 | #3,488 | 8.3 |
| 1989 | 19 | #3,113 | 9.5 |
| 1988 | 13 | #3,743 | 6.8 |
| 1987 | 17 | #2,968 | 9.1 |
| 1986 | 16 | #3,027 | 8.7 |
| 1985 | 19 | #2,619 | 10.3 |
| 1984 | 7 | #5,096 | 3.9 |
| 1983 | 13 | #3,274 | 7.3 |
| 1982 | 11 | #3,747 | 6.1 |
| 1981 | 12 | #3,461 | 6.7 |
| 1980 | 10 | #3,902 | 5.6 |
| 1979 | 12 | #3,401 | 7.0 |
| 1978 | 8 | #4,238 | 4.9 |
| 1977 | 9 | #3,911 | 5.5 |
| 1976 | 10 | #3,528 | 6.4 |
| 1975 | 6 | #4,936 | 3.8 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,156 | 4.5 |
| 1970 | 8 | #3,583 | 4.3 |
| 1967 | 5 | #4,086 | 2.9 |
| 1965 | 8 | #3,037 | 4.3 |
| 1957 | 7 | #3,316 | 3.2 |
| 1956 | 5 | #4,068 | 2.4 |
| 1948 | 8 | #2,830 | 4.6 |
| 1932 | 6 | #3,457 | 5.7 |
| 1924 | 5 | #4,492 | 4.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Davidson a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Davidson has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 60 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Davidson: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Davidson, and how old are they?
1,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,144 Americans ever recorded as Davidson. The median Davidson alive today is 21 years old; half are between 11 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 1,485 people named Davidson (34 women and girls, 1,451 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 967 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 13 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 74 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 250 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 414 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 343 |
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 Davidson born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 5 | #1,895 | 2.0× |
Where Davidson is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Davidson is most over-represented in Florida: since 1924 it was given 2.0 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 Davidson with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Davidson
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 Davidson and names like it
- Compare Davidson and SaeedBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDavidson peaked in 2009.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Davidson since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Davidson.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Davidson alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.