Davlyn
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Davlyn has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 1956. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1956, with 5 recorded.
Babies named Davlyn, 1956
1 in 824,000
Davlyn 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Davlyn?
Davlyn had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1956, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1956
- 1 in 824,000
- 5 of 4,122,003 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 401,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1956
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 571,432 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Davlyn sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1956 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 571,432 children born in 1956 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Davlyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Davlyns were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Davlyn was born before 1956 — so the typical Davlyn is around 69 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1950s
- 100.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 5
- People you could plausibly meet
1950s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).
Is Davlyn 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1956 (5)
- Years since peak
- 69
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Davlyn
Davlyn is not the most common spelling — Jaclyn is, with 16.2% against Davlyn'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.
Davlyn around the world
Where Davlyn 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.
- South Australia1958–1958#598in 1958
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Davlyn by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Davlyn
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Davlyn
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.