Davey
Davey is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 32 births. Its best rank was 655th, in 1929.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 320.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 195593 births
- Best rank
- #655in 1929
- Since 1925
- 3,503people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,312 boys have been named Davey in the United States since 1925, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1955, with 93 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1970, and the 1950s alone account for 17%. It has spent 9 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 191 girls have also been given it, 5.5% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Davey | |
|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 103 | |
| 1930s | 233 | |
| 1940s | 241 | |
| 1950s | 559 | |
| 1960s | 498 | |
| 1970s | 465 | |
| 1980s | 302 | |
| 1990s | 372 | |
| 2000s | 186 | |
| 2010s | 197 | |
| 2020s | 156 |
In 1955, its biggest year
Davey was the 757th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1955 were Michael, David, James, Robert and John. See all of 1955.
Names that rose and fell with Davey
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Fredericopeak 1959
- Rudypeak 1960
- Herminiopeak 1968
- Frankiepeak 1959
- Carnellpeak 1958
- Gilpeak 1957
- Baldemarpeak 1989
- Donellpeak 1959
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.