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Davey

#3,393 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Beloved, through David

Davey has been given to 3,568 babies in the U.S. since 1925. In 2025 it ranked #3,393 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1955, with 93 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 94% boys, 6% girls all-time.

Babies named Davey, 2025

1 in 97,500

Davey over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Davey over time

In 2025, Davey went to 48% girls and 52% boys.

19252025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Davey: meaning, origin, and history

Beloved, through David

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Davey means

Davey belongs to the name family reached through Davey → David. Its meaning is “beloved”.

Origin, language, and formation

Davey is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include David.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Davey is pronounced /ˈdeɪvi/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,346 boys were recorded with the name Davey between 1925 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 93 in 1955; its best national rank was #655 in 1929.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,664 in 2020 to #3,393 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,322 in 2015 to #3,393 in 2025.

In the United States, 222 girls were recorded with the name Davey between 1930 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 31 in 2025; its best national rank was #4,476 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,001 in 2020 to #4,476 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #12,119 in 2015 to #4,476 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Davey?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 97,500
34 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 50,200
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,393
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
67,586 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Davey sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 67,586 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Davey. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Daveys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Davey was born before 1970 — so the typical Davey is around 55 today.

Median birth year
1970
About 55 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
16.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
16.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,769
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1950s — 16.7% of all recorded uses (559).

Is Davey rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+143
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+271
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+929
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.48×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
36.6%
Peak was 1955 (93)
Years since peak
70
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#655
1929

Spellings of Davey

Davey is not the most common spelling — David is, with 75.3% against Davey's 0.07%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Davey is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Davey was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 157,696 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1North Carolina1 in 50,000
  2. 2Alabama1 in 100,000
  3. 3California1 in 100,000
  4. 4Georgia1 in 100,000
  5. 5Louisiana1 in 100,000
  6. 6South Carolina1 in 100,000
  7. 7Tennessee1 in 100,000
  8. 8Texas1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Davey has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Davey is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Davey was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,231,752 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Davey has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Davey around the world

Where Davey ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #1,897
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2007–2025
    #676
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1992–2023
    #3,103
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1947–2010
    #754
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Davey

People whose public names include Davey, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Davey in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Davey. Linked forms have their own page here.

DaveDavyDewiDaoudDavidDawidDeweyDavideDávidDafyddTaavet

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Davey by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,393
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 271
Best rank ever
#655
1929
Peak year
1955
93 that year
First recorded
1925
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,346
Count in 2025
34

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,476
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,525
Best rank ever
#4,476
2025
Peak year
2025
31 that year
First recorded
1930
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
222
Count in 2025
31

Names similar to Davey

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

DavieDavenDavyDaveonDavinDaviDavonDavianDavienDavonteDavideDavionDavisDavitDavanteDavontaDavielDavynDavontaeDaveionDavierDavidsonDavariDavud

Names with a curve like Davey

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Davey, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

RanceCarnellGilDonellFranzMickyDoranEdmundoVinsonDannielDarellDarvin

Sibling names for Davey

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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