Daevion
Masculine
Invented names use vowel digraphs far more than inherited ones do. Ae, ai, ay, ea, ei and ey appear constantly in the modern coinages and rarely in the old stock, because a digraph is a visible decision and a single letter is not.
How old is the name Daevion?
Daevion first appears in US birth records in 1998 — 27 years ago. The typical Daevion alive today was born around 2009, making them about 16 years old. About 600 people named Daevion are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Daevion most popular?
Daevion peaked in 2008, reaching #2542 nationally. Today it ranks #9714, 7,172 places below that high. See the whole 2008 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Devon to Daevion
Our story of Daevion
Count the vowel spellings in a list of inherited English names and then in a list of recent coinages, and the difference is immediate. Mary, John, Sarah, Thomas, Anna and Robert use single vowel letters almost throughout. Daevion, Kaeleigh, Jaycee, Raeven, Aaliyah and Braylen are full of digraphs. The reason is not phonetic, since the sounds are the same, but visual: a digraph shows that a choice was made. A single a could be an accident of spelling; an ae could not. That makes the digraph the cheapest available way to mark a name as deliberate, and English offers an unusually large stock of them because its spelling was never regularised. The cost is that a digraph is ambiguous by nature, since ae, ai and ay have several values each, so every gain in distinctiveness is paid for at the moment somebody has to read the name aloud.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Daevion has no inherited etymology. It joins the American prefix Da- to a -vion ending taken from Devion or Davion, itself built on Devon. The ae digraph is decorative and represents the same sound as a single a. The peak is 2008.
How the name formed
- Devon
- Davion
- Daevion
Related forms: Davion · Daevon
Pronouncing Daevion
DAY-vee-on
Three syllables, stress on the first. Some families stress the second. Daevion and Davion are homophones.
Nicknames for Daevion
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1998
- Most boys named
- 200849 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2542reached in 2008
- Change vs 2024
- −12.5%7 in 2025, from 8
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Daevion in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Davion in English — spelling variant
- Daevon in English — spelling variant
Daevions among us
people named Daevion are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 244,011 born in 2025 was named Daevion
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Carold test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Daevion's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Carold climbed just as high around 1933, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Carold's path sketches the road Daevion is walking now.
Daevion sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Daevion beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Daevion in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Three syllables with an open, easy rhythm.
- Dae works as a short form.
- The vowels are all straightforward once heard.
- Davion is the commoner spelling.
- The ae adds a letter without adding a sound.
- The stress placement is ambiguous.
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Frequently asked
- How many Daevions are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Daevion are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Daevion in 2025?
- Daevion ranks #9714 among US boy names in 2025, with 7 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Daevion?
- About 1 in every 244,011 US boys born in 2025 was named Daevion — 7 in all.
- Will my child share the name Daevion with classmates?
- Daevion will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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