Davey
#4,460 for girls in 2025, 31 births · #3,379 for boys in 2025, 34 births
Given to boys 93.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1929 · 89 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,346since 1925
Davey over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,460 | 31 | #3,379 | 34 |
| 2024 | #6,642 | 17 | #3,524 | 32 |
| 2023 | #6,409 | 18 | #3,802 | 29 |
| 2022 | #5,465 | 23 | #3,344 | 35 |
| 2021 | #4,964 | 26 | #3,582 | 31 |
| 2020 | #6,923 | 16 | #3,653 | 29 |
| 2019 | #7,716 | 14 | #4,480 | 22 |
| 2018 | #9,806 | 10 | #4,354 | 23 |
| 2017 | — | #7,095 | 11 | |
| 2016 | #7,988 | 14 | #4,776 | 20 |
| 2015 | #11,835 | 8 | #4,295 | 23 |
| 2014 | #14,558 | 6 | #5,066 | 18 |
| 2013 | #13,150 | 7 | #4,981 | 18 |
| 2012 | — | #5,256 | 17 | |
| 2011 | — | #4,822 | 19 | |
| 2010 | — | #3,894 | 26 | |
| 2009 | — | #6,095 | 14 | |
| 2008 | — | #6,070 | 14 | |
| 2007 | — | #4,011 | 25 | |
| 2006 | #17,168 | 5 | #4,675 | 19 |
| 2005 | — | #4,062 | 22 | |
| 2004 | — | #5,492 | 14 | |
| 2003 | — | #5,035 | 15 | |
| 2002 | — | #3,095 | 29 | |
| 2001 | — | #3,974 | 20 | |
| 2000 | #13,154 | 6 | #5,040 | 14 |
| 1999 | — | #2,939 | 28 | |
| 1998 | — | #3,092 | 25 | |
| 1997 | — | #2,396 | 34 | |
| 1996 | — | #2,441 | 32 | |
| 1995 | — | #2,299 | 34 | |
| 1994 | #13,430 | 5 | #1,345 | 75 |
| 1993 | — | #1,340 | 72 | |
| 1992 | — | #2,670 | 26 | |
| 1991 | — | #2,606 | 26 | |
| 1990 | — | #3,058 | 20 | |
| 1989 | — | #2,106 | 33 | |
| 1988 | — | #2,146 | 29 | |
| 1987 | — | #2,215 | 26 | |
| 1986 | — | #2,096 | 27 | |
| 1985 | — | #2,116 | 26 | |
| 1984 | — | #2,437 | 20 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,905 | 28 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,596 | 38 | |
| 1981 | — | #1,629 | 36 | |
| 1980 | — | #1,547 | 39 | |
| 1979 | — | #1,435 | 42 | |
| 1978 | — | #1,149 | 59 | |
| 1977 | — | #1,268 | 49 | |
| 1976 | — | #1,225 | 50 | |
| 1975 | — | #1,530 | 34 | |
| 1974 | — | #1,388 | 38 | |
| 1973 | — | #1,123 | 53 | |
| 1972 | — | #1,285 | 42 | |
| 1971 | — | #1,309 | 41 | |
| 1970 | — | #1,080 | 57 | |
| 1969 | — | #1,136 | 47 | |
| 1968 | — | #1,034 | 51 | |
| 1967 | — | #1,198 | 39 | |
| 1966 | — | #1,345 | 32 | |
| 1965 | — | #1,254 | 37 | |
| 1964 | #6,009 | 6 | #1,070 | 50 |
| 1963 | — | #961 | 61 | |
| 1962 | — | #907 | 70 | |
| 1961 | — | #1,059 | 54 | |
| 1960 | — | #1,017 | 57 | |
| 1959 | — | #1,012 | 58 | |
| 1958 | — | #978 | 60 | |
| 1957 | — | #1,214 | 41 | |
| 1956 | — | #1,019 | 54 | |
| 1955 | — | #756 | 93 | |
| 1954 | — | #1,007 | 55 | |
| 1953 | — | #833 | 74 | |
| 1952 | — | #1,094 | 44 | |
| 1951 | — | #1,171 | 38 | |
| 1950 | — | #1,086 | 42 | |
| 1949 | — | #985 | 50 | |
| 1948 | — | #1,091 | 42 | |
| 1947 | — | #1,190 | 37 | |
| 1946 | — | #1,409 | 25 | |
| 1945 | — | #1,772 | 15 | |
| 1944 | — | #2,309 | 10 | |
| 1943 | #4,691 | 5 | #1,636 | 19 |
| 1942 | — | #1,682 | 18 | |
| 1941 | — | #1,685 | 17 | |
| 1940 | — | #2,671 | 8 | |
| 1939 | — | #1,712 | 16 | |
| 1938 | — | #1,901 | 14 | |
| 1937 | — | #1,828 | 15 | |
| 1936 | — | #2,452 | 9 | |
| 1935 | — | #1,708 | 17 | |
| 1934 | — | #1,461 | 22 | |
| 1933 | — | #1,829 | 15 | |
| 1932 | — | #1,356 | 26 | |
| 1931 | — | #983 | 45 | |
| 1930 | #4,550 | 5 | #909 | 54 |
| 1929 | — | #655 | 89 | |
| 1928 | — | #2,843 | 9 | |
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| 1925 | — | #4,197 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Davey! It came in at #4,197, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1925–1927, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Davey
- 145 spots since 2024 (#3,524 → #3,379)
- 274 spots since 2020 (#3,653 → #3,379)
- 916 spots since 2015 (#4,295 → #3,379)
- Biggest jump: 2,188 spots in 1929 (#2,843 → #655)
- Biggest drop: 373 spots in 1932 (#983 → #1,356)
- Debuted 1925
- Peaked 1929 at #655 (89 births)
- Births halved by 1932, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 9 yrs · run 1929–1931
- Highest: 1 in 12,086 boys born in 1929 were named Davey (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 50,238 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 16.7% of all boys named Davey (559) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 103 | #655 (1929) | #2,565 |
| 1930s | 233 | #909 (1930) | #1,614 |
| 1940s | 241 | #985 (1949) | #1,643 |
| 1950s | 559 | #756 (1955) | #1,017 |
| 1960s | 498 | #907 (1962) | #1,098 |
| 1970s | 465 | #1,080 (1970) | #1,279 |
| 1980s | 302 | #1,547 (1980) | #1,979 |
| 1990s | 372 | #1,340 (1993) | #2,419 |
| 2000s | 186 | #3,095 (2002) | #4,755 |
| 2010s | 197 | #3,894 (2010) | #4,902 |
| 2020s | 190 | #3,344 (2022) | #3,547 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Davey in 1930
Top girls' names in 1930
Top boys' names in 1930
More about 1930
girls
1,125,927 girls got a published name in 1930; 1 in 225,185 of them was named Davey, which outranked 13.3% of the 5,247 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 697 names at #4,550; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,097,378 boys got a published name in 1930; 1 in 20,322 of them was named Davey, which outranked 80.0% of the 4,542 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 33.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).