Davaughn
Masculine · “Welsh bychan”
Vaughan is Welsh for small, and its first letter records a grammatical rule. Welsh changes the opening consonant of a word depending on what comes before it, so bychan becomes fychan, and English wrote the result down as Vaughan.
How old is the name Davaughn?
Davaughn first appears in US birth records in 1974 — 51 years ago. The typical Davaughn alive today was born around 2001, making them about 24 years old. About 800 people named Davaughn are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Davaughn most popular?
Davaughn peaked in 1995, reaching #1914 nationally. Today it ranks #10695, 8,781 places below that high. See the whole 1995 chart.
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Where it comes from
From bychan to Davaughn
The story of Davaughn
Welsh has initial consonant mutation: the first sound of a word changes according to grammatical context, so b becomes f, said as v, in certain positions. The word bychan, small, appears as fychan when it follows a name, which is exactly where it was used, as a tag meaning the younger. English speakers hearing Rhys Fychan wrote Rice Vaughan, and the mutated form became a surname in its own right, which means the whole Vaughan family carries a grammatical ending rather than a word. The same process gave Lloyd from Llwyd and Bowen from ab Owain. American naming then took Vaughn as a stem and attached prefixes to it, producing Davaughn and Devaughn.
Meaning
Welsh bychan, small
Davaughn joins the American Da- prefix to Vaughn, from Welsh fychan, the mutated form of bychan, small, used to distinguish a younger man from an older of the same name. The peak is 1995.
How the name formed
- bychan
- Fychan
- Vaughn
- Davaughn
Related forms: Fychan · Devaughn
Pronouncing Davaughn
duh-VAWN
Two syllables, stress on the second. The gh is silent, as it is in the Welsh surname.
Nicknames for Davaughn
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
- 1974
- Most boys named
- 199544 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1914reached in 1995
- Change vs 2024
- −33.3%6 in 2025, from 9
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.
Davaughn in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Fychan in Welsh — related form
- Devaughn in English — related form
Davaughns among us
people named Davaughn are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 284,679 born in 2025 was named Davaughn
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 Cheston test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Davaughn's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Cheston climbed just as high around 1978, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Cheston's path sketches the road Davaughn is walking now.
Davaughn 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
Davaughn beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Davaughn in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Vaughn works as a complete name inside it.
- The Welsh element is documented and grammatically interesting.
- Two syllables with a firm ending.
- The gh is silent and will be queried.
- Devaughn is the more common form.
- The 1995 peak dates it closely.
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Frequently asked
- How many Davaughns are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Davaughn are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Davaughn in 2025?
- Davaughn ranks #10695 among US boy names in 2025, with 6 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Davaughn?
- About 1 in every 284,679 US boys born in 2025 was named Davaughn — 6 in all.
- Will my child share the name Davaughn with classmates?
- Davaughn will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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