Davyn
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Davyn has been given to 678 babies in the U.S. since 1993. 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 2007, with 47 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 89% boys, 11% girls all-time.
Babies named Davyn, 2024
1 in 557,000
Davyn 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Davyn over time
In 2024, Davyn went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
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.
How common is Davyn?
Davyn had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 557,000
- 6 of 3,342,801 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 287,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 386,177 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Davyn sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Davyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Davyns were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Davyn was born before 2010 — so the typical Davyn is around 15 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 43.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 94.5%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 604
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 43.9% of all recorded uses (265).
Is Davyn 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 2007 (47)
- Years since peak
- 18
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 26.6% average annual change
Spellings of Davyn
Davyn is not the most common spelling — David is, with 77.4% against Davyn'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.
Where Davyn is used
Across 1910–2025, Davyn was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 713,864 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Texas1 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. Davyn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Davyn around the world
Where Davyn 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 & Wales2021–2021#4,789in 2021
- France2014–2014#6,612in 2014
- Canada2001–2012#1,422in 2012
- South Australia1983–1983#443in 1983
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Davyn by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Davyn
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Davyn
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.