Davon
Davon was given to 77 boys in 2025, #1,978 among boys’ names; 13,763 Americans have been recorded with it since 1961 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 13,300 Americans named Davon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 19 and 35.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Davon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Davon?
#1,978 among boys’ names, 2025
Davon fell from #1,152 in 2015 to #1,978 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 85.0 to 45.1 per million.
586 babies in 1994, the peak
Davon peaked in 1994, when 586 babies were given it (567 boys, #403 among boys’ names). The 77 births of 2025 are 13% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 77 | #1,978 | 0.05 |
| 2024 | 111 | #1,563 | 0.06 |
| 2023 | 103 | #1,663 | 0.06 |
| 2022 | 110 | #1,598 | 0.06 |
| 2021 | 148 | #1,281 | 0.08 |
| 2020 | 98 | #1,637 | 0.06 |
| 2019 | 131 | #1,366 | 0.07 |
| 2018 | 140 | #1,302 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 166 | #1,144 | 0.09 |
| 2016 | 122 | #1,424 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (63)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 163 | #1,152 | 0.09 |
| 2014 | 171 | #1,120 | 0.09 |
| 2013 | 199 | #994 | 0.11 |
| 2012 | 211 | #957 | 0.11 |
| 2011 | 202 | #975 | 0.11 |
| 2010 | 224 | #908 | 0.12 |
| 2009 | 303 | #755 | 0.15 |
| 2008 | 329 | #709 | 0.16 |
| 2007 | 362 | #663 | 0.17 |
| 2006 | 400 | #604 | 0.19 |
| 2005 | 374 | #603 | 0.19 |
| 2004 | 343 | #621 | 0.17 |
| 2003 | 368 | #590 | 0.19 |
| 2002 | 351 | #593 | 0.18 |
| 2001 | 410 | #533 | 0.21 |
| 2000 | 457 | #499 | 0.23 |
| 1999 | 457 | #486 | 0.24 |
| 1998 | 456 | #480 | 0.24 |
| 1997 | 431 | #492 | 0.23 |
| 1996 | 468 | #464 | 0.25 |
| 1995 | 439 | #490 | 0.23 |
| 1994 | 567 | #403 | 0.29 |
| 1993 | 536 | #422 | 0.27 |
| 1992 | 490 | #449 | 0.25 |
| 1991 | 483 | #448 | 0.24 |
| 1990 | 423 | #478 | 0.21 |
| 1989 | 384 | #488 | 0.19 |
| 1988 | 289 | #538 | 0.15 |
| 1987 | 271 | #552 | 0.15 |
| 1986 | 208 | #621 | 0.11 |
| 1985 | 189 | #640 | 0.10 |
| 1984 | 153 | #706 | 0.08 |
| 1983 | 144 | #719 | 0.08 |
| 1982 | 141 | #735 | 0.08 |
| 1981 | 113 | #829 | 0.06 |
| 1980 | 110 | #842 | 0.06 |
| 1979 | 92 | #915 | 0.05 |
| 1978 | 89 | #916 | 0.05 |
| 1977 | 80 | #956 | 0.05 |
| 1976 | 52 | #1,194 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 52 | #1,170 | 0.03 |
| 1974 | 48 | #1,202 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 29 | #1,618 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 34 | #1,460 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 25 | #1,793 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 18 | #2,137 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 17 | #2,064 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 6 | #3,783 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 8 | #3,039 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 5 | #4,025 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 6 | #3,698 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 5 | #4,185 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 5 | #4,195 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Davon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 13,763 Americans recorded as Davon, 3% are girls and 97% boys. In 2025 it went to 77 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 Davon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Davon, and how old are they?
13,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 13,763 Americans ever recorded as Davon. The median Davon alive today is 28 years old; half are between 19 and 35.
The 2020 Census counted 9,316 people named Davon (323 women and girls, 8,993 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 12,840 born in the U.S. The Census count is 27% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 13 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 710 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 5,280 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 5,610 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,730 |
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 Davon born?
The states with the most babies named Davon are New Jersey, California and Illinois, with 65% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 8 | #782 | 1.6× |
| California | 7 | #2,035 | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,050 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,140 | 1.2× |
| Texas | 6 | #2,343 | 0.4× |
Where Davon is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Davon is most over-represented in District of Columbia: since 1961 it was given 6.9 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 Davon 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 53,284 babies since 1880, Davon is the most given (26% of them). In 2025 it was given to 77 of their 515 babies (15%), the third 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 Davon
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 Davon and names like it
- Compare Davon and DavionBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDavon peaked in 1994.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Davon since 1910.
- The top names of 1994The year the most babies were named Davon.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Davon alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.