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How popular is “Davey” in the USA?

Number of people named “Davey” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Davey” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Davey” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Davey” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Davey” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Davey” by birth year

This chart shows how “Davey” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1925 5 0.000002143 5 -100%
1928 9 0.000003981 9 -100%
1929 89 0.000040599 89 -100%
1930 59 0.000026537 5 54 -83%
1931 45 0.000021384 45 -100%
1932 26 0.000012315 26 -100%
1933 15 0.000007502 15 -100%
1934 22 0.000010593 22 -100%
1935 17 0.000008134 17 -100%
1936 9 0.000004332 9 -100%
1937 15 0.00000704 15 -100%
1938 14 0.000006327 14 -100%
1939 16 0.000007261 16 -100%
1940 8 0.000003474 8 -100%
1941 17 0.000006977 17 -100%
1942 18 0.000006589 18 -100%
1943 24 0.000008503 5 19 -58%
1944 10 0.000003717 10 -100%
1945 15 0.000005654 15 -100%
1946 25 0.000007824 25 -100%
1947 37 0.000010271 37 -100%
1948 42 0.000012165 42 -100%
1949 50 0.000014348 50 -100%
1950 42 0.000011988 42 -100%
1951 38 0.000010316 38 -100%
1952 44 0.000011585 44 -100%
1953 74 0.000019203 74 -100%
1954 55 0.000013817 55 -100%
1955 93 0.000023163 93 -100%
1956 54 0.000013097 54 -100%
1957 41 0.000009757 41 -100%
1958 60 0.000014514 60 -100%
1959 58 0.000013949 58 -100%
1960 57 0.000013722 57 -100%
1961 54 0.000013036 54 -100%
1962 70 0.000017347 70 -100%
1963 61 0.000015411 61 -100%
1964 56 0.000014405 6 50 -79%
1965 37 0.000010206 37 -100%
1966 32 0.000009207 32 -100%
1967 39 0.000011488 39 -100%
1968 51 0.000015096 51 -100%
1969 47 0.000013524 47 -100%
1970 57 0.000015805 57 -100%
1971 41 0.000011945 41 -100%
1972 42 0.000013363 42 -100%
1973 53 0.000017568 53 -100%
1974 38 0.0000125 38 -100%
1975 34 0.000011261 34 -100%
1976 50 0.000016478 50 -100%
1977 49 0.000015426 49 -100%
1978 59 0.000018589 59 -100%
1979 42 0.000012624 42 -100%
1980 39 0.000011322 39 -100%
1981 36 0.000010407 36 -100%
1982 38 0.000010833 38 -100%
1983 28 0.000008085 28 -100%
1984 20 0.000005733 20 -100%
1985 26 0.000007285 26 -100%
1986 27 0.00000759 27 -100%
1987 26 0.000007211 26 -100%
1988 29 0.000007848 29 -100%
1989 33 0.000008584 33 -100%
1990 20 0.00000506 20 -100%
1991 26 0.000006675 26 -100%
1992 26 0.000006769 26 -100%
1993 72 0.000019097 72 -100%
1994 80 0.000021519 5 75 -88%
1995 34 0.000009284 34 -100%
1996 32 0.000008774 32 -100%
1997 34 0.000009377 34 -100%
1998 25 0.000006797 25 -100%
1999 28 0.00000758 28 -100%
2000 20 0.000005291 6 14 -40%
2001 20 0.000005343 20 -100%
2002 29 0.000007758 29 -100%
2003 15 0.000003945 15 -100%
2004 14 0.000003664 14 -100%
2005 22 0.000005722 22 -100%
2006 24 0.000006066 5 19 -58%
2007 25 0.000006254 25 -100%
2008 14 0.000003562 14 -100%
2009 14 0.000003665 14 -100%
2010 26 0.000007035 26 -100%
2011 19 0.000005194 19 -100%
2012 17 0.000004648 17 -100%
2013 25 0.000006857 7 18 -44%
2014 24 0.000006475 6 18 -50%
2015 31 0.000008376 8 23 -48%
2016 34 0.000009268 14 20 -18%
2017 11 0.000003076 11 -100%
2018 33 0.000009386 10 23 -39%
2019 36 0.000010372 14 22 -22%
2020 45 0.000013471 16 29 -29%
2021 57 0.000016824 26 31 -9%
2022 58 0.000017144 23 35 -21%
2023 47 0.000014194 18 29 -23%
2024 49 0.000014721 17 32 -31%

Explore other names

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  5. Davette
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  8. Daveyah
  9. Daveyon
  10. Davi
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