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Davies

#9,930 in 2025Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Davies has been given to 47 babies in the U.S. since 1919. In 2025 it ranked #9,930 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1919, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Davies, 2025

1 in 474,000

Davies over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Davies: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Davies means

Davies is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Davies is used in English.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Davies is pronounced /ˈdeɪvɪs/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 47 boys were recorded with the name Davies between 1919 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1919; its best national rank was #3,249 in 1946.

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 Davies?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 244,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#9,930
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Davies 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Davies. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Daviess were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Davies was born before 1946 — so the typical Davies is around 79 today.

Median birth year
1946
About 79 years old
Biggest decade
1940s
23.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
38.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
23
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1940s — 23.4% of all recorded uses (11).

Is Davies 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 1919 (7)
Years since peak
106
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#3,249
1946

Spellings of Davies

Davies is not the most common spelling — David is, with 59.0% against Davies's <0.01%.

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.

Davies around the world

Where Davies 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
    2005–2024
    #3,689
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Davies by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,930
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#3,249
1946
Peak year
1919
7 that year
First recorded
1919
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
47
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Davies

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

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Sibling names for Davies

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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