Davie

Where Davie comes from

The dictionaries list Davie as a given name — a diminutive of the male given name David — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #809 among boys — 6 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1885
    Peak, #765
    7 babies named Davie — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1886
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1956
    Davie Cooper born
    Scottish footballer
  5. 1995
    Davie Selke born
    German footballer
  6. 2011
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the male given name David.
Namesakes
  • Davie Selke · German footballer, born 1995
  • Davie Cooper · Scottish footballer, 1956–1995
  • Davie Wilson · Scottish footballer, 1939–2022
  • Davie Fulton · Canadian politician, 1916–2000
  • Davie Sneddon · football player and manager, 1936–2020

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.