Davion
Masculine · Hebrew roots
Davion is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 13,112 boys against 216 girls since 1880.
Davion is an American name built on one of the oldest ones going — David, the Hebrew name carried through the Bible into nearly every European language — and finished with the -ion ending that gave English Davion, Javion and Tavion within a generation of each other. It has the long, open first syllable of David and then lifts at the end. Three syllables, no silent letters, nothing to explain twice.
How old is the name Davion?
Davion first appears in US birth records in 1970 — 55 years ago. The typical Davion alive today was born around 2006, making them about 19 years old. About 13,000 people named Davion are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Davion most popular?
Davion peaked in 2005, reaching #429 nationally. Today it ranks #1352, 923 places below that high. See the whole 2005 chart.
Where it comes from
From Dawid (Hebrew) to Davion
The story of Davion
David itself is ancient: Hebrew Dawid, the shepherd-king of the Bible, passed into Greek and Latin and from there into every corner of Christian Europe. Davion belongs to a much later and specifically American chapter — the flowering of newly coined given names in the later twentieth century, many of them African American, made by taking a familiar root and pairing it with a favored ending. Davion, Davon, Javion, Tavion and Dashawn all come out of that workshop, related to each other by pattern as much as by ancestry. It is a young name resting on a very old one.
Meaningscholars disagree
Most readings take it as an American elaboration of David, Hebrew for "beloved"
Two readings compete, and neither is provable from documents. One treats Davion as David extended, inheriting "beloved" through the Hebrew name. The other treats it as a sound-built name: the Dav- of David joined to the -ion/-von ending shared with Javion, Tavion and Davon, coined for its rhythm rather than to carry a translation. Both are honest descriptions of how names like this were formed.
How the name formed
- DawidHebrew
- David
- Davon
- Davion
Pronouncing Davion
DAY-vee-on
Stress falls on the first syllable. Some speakers compress the middle and say DAY-vyon in two beats; both are in ordinary use and neither needs correcting.
Nicknames for Davion
High
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
- 1970
- Most boys named
- 2007649 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #429reached in 2005
- Change vs 2024
- −14.2%139 in 2025, from 162
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.
Davion in other languages
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Florida, California.
Davions among us
people named Davion are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 12,288 born in 2025 was named Davion
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 Demarcus test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Davion's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Demarcus climbed just as high around 1988, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Demarcus's path sketches the road Davion is walking now.
Davion 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
Where Davion is headed
Davion should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Davion beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Davion in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Built on David, so the first syllable is already familiar to almost everyone and the spelling follows from the sound.
- Inherits Dave as a ready-made short form, without needing one to be invented.
- No silent letters and one clear stress, which makes it easy to say correctly on a first reading.
- Part of a recognizable family of names — Davon, Javion, Tavion — so it registers as familiar even to people meeting it for the first time.
- It sits close to Davian, Davon, Dayvon and Daevon, and will be misheard or mis-typed as one of those often enough that spelling it out becomes routine.
- The name rose and crested within living memory, so for a while it may read as belonging to a particular stretch of decades rather than to no era at all.
- Because it was coined rather than inherited, questions about what it means have no settled answer — you can offer the David connection, but not as documented fact.
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Frequently asked
- How many Davions are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 13,000 people named Davion are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Davion in 2025?
- Davion ranks #1352 among US boy names in 2025, with 139 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Davion?
- About 1 in every 12,288 US boys born in 2025 was named Davion — 139 in all.
- Will my child share the name Davion with classmates?
- Davion will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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