girls:
994 births since 1914
#4722 (17th percentile)
boys:
31.2k births since 1880
#653 (86th percentile)
overall:
32.2k births since 1880
#1416 (82nd percentile)
The name Davis is the #1,416 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 32,223 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 81.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 81.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #653 (85.8% percentile) for all time with 31,229 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #4,722 (17.4% percentile) for all time with 994 births since 1914.
Davis has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1914 for girls).
The name Davis has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 96.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Davis reached its peak popularity in 2001, achieving the 58.4% percentile (ranked #344) with 354 births per million. The name was most common in 2001, with 354 births per million (ranked 58.4% percentile). Despite a low point around 2006, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for boys. Currently, Davis ranks #521 for boys (42.9% percentile) with 248 births per million, which is 70.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Davis reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 3.2% percentile (ranked #927) with 20 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 20 births per million (ranked 3.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Davis ranks #929 for girls (1.9% percentile) with 13 births per million, which is 65.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Davis".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Davis. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 65.5% confident that Davis is pronounced as DAY-vihs, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DAY-vuhs, at 23.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like D EY1 V IH0 S) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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