Davidson
#3,971 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Davidson has been given to 1,144 babies in the U.S. since 1924. In 2025 it ranked #3,971 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 38 recorded.
Babies named Davidson, 2025
1 in 123,000
Davidson over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Davidson?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 123,000
- 27 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 63,300
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #3,971
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 85,108 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Davidson sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 85,108 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Davidson. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Davidsons were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Davidson was born before 2004 — so the typical Davidson is around 21 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 25.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 59.8%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,125
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 25.0% of all recorded uses (286).
Is Davidson 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
- +1,743
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +1,323
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −525
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.84×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 71.1%
- Peak was 2009 (38)
- Years since peak
- 16
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 33.7% average annual change
Spellings of Davidson
Davidson is not the most common spelling — Davion is, with 92.0% against Davidson's 8.0%.
- Davion92.0%13,112
- Davidson8.0%1,144
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 Davidson is used
Across 1910–2025, Davidson was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 374,265 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Florida1 in 50,000
- 2California1 in —
- 3North Carolina1 in —
- 4New York1 in —
- 5Texas1 in —
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. Davidson has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Davidson around the world
Where Davidson 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 & Wales2015–2015#4,747in 2015
- France1980–2025#4,350in 2025
- South Australia1995–1995#533in 1995
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Davidson by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Davidson
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Davidson
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.