Daveon
Masculine · “beloved”
Daveon is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 2,655 boys against 16 girls since 1880.
Daveon joins Dave to the -eon ending of American naming, and David underneath it is one of the great biblical names.
How old is the name Daveon?
Daveon first appears in US birth records in 1983 — 42 years ago. The typical Daveon alive today was born around 2005, making them about 20 years old. About 2,600 people named Daveon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Daveon most popular?
Daveon peaked in 2000, reaching #1121 nationally. Today it ranks #4249, 3,128 places below that high. See the whole 2000 chart.
Lists built from the same records:
Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Daveon
Ours, offered as ours. David's name may not mean beloved at all: there is a word in older Near Eastern texts that appears to mean a leader or chieftain and looks like it, which would make the name a title rather than an endearment. The beloved reading is standard and not secure. Daveon puts an American ending behind Dave, which is three removes from whichever of the two it is.
Meaningscholars disagree
beloved
David is generally read as beloved, from a Hebrew root about loving, though the derivation is not certain and a connection to an older Near Eastern word for a chieftain has been argued. The -eon ending is a modern American suffix.
Pronouncing Daveon
DAY-vee-on
Three syllables, first stressed. Some families say duh-VEE-on.
Nicknames for Daveon
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
- 1983
- Most boys named
- 2007145 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1121reached in 2000
- Change vs 2024
- +41.2%24 in 2025, from 17
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.
Daveon in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- David in English — related form
- Davion in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Florida, Michigan.
Daveons among us
people named Daveon are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 71,170 born in 2025 was named Daveon
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 Khristopher test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Daveon's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Khristopher climbed just as high around 1978, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Khristopher's path sketches the road Daveon is walking now.
Daveon 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
Daveon beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Daveon in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Dave is a complete short form with an enormous record.
- Read correctly on sight by most English speakers.
- It belongs to a documented American naming tradition rather than standing alone.
- Daveon, Davion and Davion are all in use and none is dominant.
- The stress is unsettled between the first and second syllables.
- David's own meaning is not fully settled.
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Masculine · #4249 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Daveons are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,600 people named Daveon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Daveon in 2025?
- Daveon ranks #4249 among US boy names in 2025, with 24 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Daveon?
- About 1 in every 71,170 US boys born in 2025 was named Daveon — 24 in all.
- Will my child share the name Daveon with classmates?
- Daveon will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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