Davon Boy
How popular is Davon?
#1,976 boy name in 2025
77 baby boys were named Davon in the US in 2025, making it the 1976th most popular boy name.
Davon popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #1,976 for boys (▼ 413 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 77 boys |
| 10-year trend | Falling fast (-53% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #1,152 in 2015, #1,634 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1994 (567 boys) |
| Highest rank | #403 in 1994 |
| First recorded | 1961 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 100% boys, 0% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.1% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Davon counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Davon family of names ranked #943 for boys in 2025 (#886 the year before), with 219 babies in all.
| Spelling | Boys in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Davon | 77 | 35% |
| Davin | 48 | 22% |
| Dayvon | 50 | 23% |
| Daven | 28 | 13% |
| Daivon | 10 | 5% |
| Dayven | 6 | 3% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Davon is most popular
Babies named Davon per 1,000 boys born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Maryland: 0.2 per 1,000 (22 boys)
- Michigan: 0.2 per 1,000 (31 boys)
- Ohio: 0.1 per 1,000 (30 boys)
- Mississippi: 0.1 per 1,000 (6 boys)
- Georgia: 0.1 per 1,000 (25 boys)
Davon by decade
| Decade | Baby boys | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 52 | #2,045 |
| 1970s | 519 | #914 |
| 1980s | 2,002 | #488 |
| 1990s | 4,750 | #403 |
| 2000s | 3,697 | #499 |
| 2010s | 1,729 | #908 |
| 2020s | 647 | #1,280 |
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Questions
- Is Davon a boy or girl name?
- Davon is mostly a boy name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Davon were boys.
- How popular is the name Davon?
- 77 baby boys were named Davon in the US in 2025, making it the 1976th most popular boy name.
- When was Davon most popular?
- Davon peaked in 1994, when 567 boys were given the name. Its highest rank was #403 in 1994.
- How many people are named Davon?
- 13,763 babies have been named Davon in the US since 1880. We estimate about 13,385 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 28.
- Where is Davon most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Davon was most common in Maryland, at 0.2 of every 1,000 boys born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.