Daivon
Masculine
The modern American coinage vocabulary is almost entirely English geography. The endings that build these names — -von from Devon, -ley from a woodland clearing, -ton from a farmstead, -don from a hill — are all pieces of the English landscape, harvested through surnames and emptied of meaning.
How old is the name Daivon?
Daivon first appears in US birth records in 1987 — 38 years ago. The typical Daivon alive today was born around 2002, making them about 23 years old. About 700 people named Daivon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Daivon most popular?
Daivon peaked in 1996, reaching #2218 nationally. Today it ranks #7679, 5,461 places below that high. See the whole 1996 chart.
Where it comes from
From Devon to Daivon
Our story of Daivon
It is worth stepping back and noticing where the raw material came from. The suffix stock of modern American naming is a list of Old English landscape terms: lēah, a clearing, gives -ley and -leigh; tūn, a farmstead, gives -ton; dūn, a hill, gives -don; denu, a valley, gives -den; ford, a river crossing, gives -ford. Add the county names — Devon, Kent, Surrey — and the Norse -by, a village, and nearly the whole suffix inventory is accounted for. Every one of them arrived by the same route: English place name to hereditary surname, surname to American given name, given name to detachable ending. By the last step the landscape is entirely gone, and what remains is a set of sounds that read as names because they always have. Daivon peaks in 1996.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No inherited meaning. Da- is a created prefix; -von is drawn from Devon, an English county named for the Dumnonii, a British tribe. The place name's own etymology does not transfer to a name built from a fragment of it, and Daivon has no documented reading. It is a spelling variant of Davon and Daevon.
How the name formed
- Devon
- Davon
- Daivon
Related forms: Davon · Daevon
Pronouncing Daivon
DAY-von
Two syllables, stress on the first. Some families stress the second, day-VON; both are in use, and the spelling does not settle it.
Nicknames for Daivon
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
- 1987
- Most boys named
- 200041 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2218reached in 1996
- Change vs 2024
- +25.0%10 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.
Daivon in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Davon in English — spelling variant
- Daevon in English — spelling variant
Daivons among us
people named Daivon are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 170,808 born in 2025 was named Daivon
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Daivon
- #7679
- Daivon on the 2025 chart
- #868
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Daivon went to 10 boys in 2025, but Dayvon is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 60, which makes it the 868th most-given boys’ name of the year — 6,811 places above the chart.
- Dayvon50
- Daivon10
About 1 boy in 28,468 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 170,808 for Daivon itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Kean test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Daivon's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Kean climbed just as high around 1955, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Kean's path sketches the road Daivon is walking now.
Daivon 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
Daivon beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Daivon in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Von and Dai are both usable short forms.
- The spelling maps onto the sound with nothing silent.
- It sits in a large, familiar American sound family.
- Davon, Daevon and Dayvon all compete for the same sound.
- The stress placement varies between families.
- There is no meaning to give behind the name.
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Frequently asked
- How many Daivons are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Daivon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Daivon?
- Daivon is one of 2 recorded spellings. Dayvon is the more common one — 50 births in 2025 against 10 for Daivon.
- How popular is the name Daivon in 2025?
- Daivon ranks #7679 among US boy names in 2025, with 10 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Daivon?
- About 1 in every 170,808 US boys born in 2025 was named Daivon — 10 in all.
- Will my child share the name Daivon with classmates?
- Daivon will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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