girls:
174 births since 1930
#5542 (3rd percentile)
boys:
3.3k births since 1925
#2181 (52nd percentile)
overall:
3.5k births since 1925
#4659 (40th percentile)
The name Davey is the #4,659 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,454 recorded births since 1925. This represents the 39.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 39.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,181 (52.4% percentile) for all time with 3,280 births since 1925. For girls, it ranks #5,542 (3.0% percentile) for all time with 174 births since 1930.
Davey first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1925 (1925 for boys and 1930 for girls). Birth data for Davey is available in 97 out of the 99 years between 1925 and 2023 (97 years for boys and 16 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Davey has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 95.0% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 61.7% of babies named Davey were boys.
For boys, Davey reached its peak popularity in 1929, achieving the 15.8% percentile (ranked #447) with 80 births per million. The name was most common in 1929, with 80 births per million (ranked 15.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2017, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Davey ranks #887 for boys (2.6% percentile) with 16 births per million, which is 19.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Davey reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 2.2% percentile (ranked #915) with 15 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 15 births per million (ranked 2.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2013, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Davey ranks #934 for girls (1.4% percentile) with 10 births per million, which is 70.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Davey".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Davey is pronounced as DAY-vee, which has 2 syllables.
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