Davy
Davy is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 45 births. Its best rank was 525th, in 1955.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 450.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1955195 births
- Best rank
- #525in 1955
- Since 1917
- 2,967people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,661 boys have been named Davy in the United States since 1917, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1955, with 195 births.
This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1969, and the 1950s alone account for 22%. It has spent 4 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 306 girls have also been given it, 10% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Davy | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | |
| 1920s | 40 | |
| 1930s | 148 | |
| 1940s | 163 | |
| 1950s | 586 | |
| 1960s | 410 | |
| 1970s | 458 | |
| 1980s | 257 | |
| 1990s | 162 | |
| 2000s | 135 | |
| 2010s | 149 | |
| 2020s | 148 |
In 1955, its biggest year
Davy was the 525th 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 Davy
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Mickypeak 1961
- Daveypeak 1955
- Keithpeak 1957
- Darylpeak 1956
- Reggiepeak 1979
- Mickelpeak 1957
- Kerwinpeak 1959
- 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.