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 | ||
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| 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.
Where Davey is popular in 1994
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- North Carolina#506 · 1 in 4,971
- Alabama#537 · 1 in 5,033
- Tennessee#605 · 1 in 6,920
- Georgia#871 · 1 in 9,613
- Illinois#1,106 · 1 in 16,887
Best ever in a state: #249 in West Virginia, 1979.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | #506 | 9 | 1 in 4,971 |
| Alabama | #537 | 5 | 1 in 5,033 |
| Tennessee | #605 | 5 | 1 in 6,920 |
| Georgia | #871 | 5 | 1 in 9,613 |
| Illinois | #1,106 | 5 | 1 in 16,887 |
| California | #1,946 | 6 | 1 in 44,476 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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 1994
Top girls' names in 1994
Top boys' names in 1994
More about 1994
girls
1,785,753 girls got a published name in 1994; 1 in 357,151 of them was named Davey, which outranked 14.8% of the 15,759 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,329 names at #13,430; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,932,031 boys got a published name in 1994; 1 in 25,760 of them was named Davey, which outranked 86.9% of the 10,245 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,340Jeffry76
- #1,340Nikolai76
- #1,340Richie76
- #1,345Davey75
- #1,345Cleveland75
- #1,345Derrek75
- #1,345Jalon75
- #1,353Abelardo74
- #1,353Gerson74
- #1,353Hamza74
Tied with 7 names at #1,345; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.