girls:
367 births since 1966
#5349 (6th percentile)
boys:
13.2k births since 1961
#1013 (78th percentile)
overall:
13.6k births since 1961
#2249 (71st percentile)
The name Davon is the #2,249 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 13,572 recorded births since 1961. This represents the 70.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 70.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,013 (77.9% percentile) for all time with 13,205 births since 1961. For girls, it ranks #5,349 (6.4% percentile) for all time with 367 births since 1966.
Davon first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1961 (1961 for boys and 1966 for girls). Birth data for Davon is available in 61 out of the 63 years between 1961 and 2023 (61 years for boys and 31 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 Davon has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.3% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Davon reached its peak popularity in 1994, achieving the 50.6% percentile (ranked #384) with 278 births per million. The name was most common in 1994, with 278 births per million (ranked 50.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1996, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Davon ranks #814 for boys (10.7% percentile) with 56 births per million, which is 20.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Davon reached its peak popularity in 1985, achieving the 2.0% percentile (ranked #784) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 1985, with 11 births per million (ranked 2.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1999.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Davon".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Davon. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 31.8% confident that Davon is pronounced as duh-VAHN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DAY-vahn, at 27.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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