Davonna
Feminine
Davonna and Lavonna differ only in their first consonant. The rest of the name — three syllables, the stress in the middle, the doubled n — is fixed, and swapping the opening sound produces a different name that everybody can read on sight.
How old is the name Davonna?
Davonna first appears in US birth records in 1947 — 78 years ago. The typical Davonna alive today was born around 1994, making them about 31 years old. About 900 people named Davonna are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Davonna most popular?
Davonna peaked in 1993, reaching #2380 nationally. See the whole 1993 chart.
Lists built from the same records:
Where it comes from
From the back half of Yvonne detaches as an element to Davonna
Our story of Davonna
The opening consonant is the cheapest thing in a name to change and the most effective. It is the first sound anybody hears, it carries most of the work of telling one name from another, and everything after it can stay exactly where it is. A naming system that rotates first consonants can produce a dozen names from one shape without any of them being confusable in speech — which is precisely what English did with Molly and Polly, Rob and Bob, Meg and Peg, centuries before anybody was keeping a register.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The base is the back half of Yvonne, which detached at some point in the middle of the last century and became available as an element. The front is one of a small set of productive openings. Neither carries a meaning, and the doubled n is an English convention marking a short vowel that was short anyway.
How the name formed
- the back half of Yvonne detaches as an element
- American front elements attach to it
- the opening consonant rotates freely
- Davonna appears in the record in the 1940s
- peaks in the 1990s
Related forms: Lavonna · Davonne
Pronouncing Davonna
duh-VON-uh
Three syllables with the weight in the middle. The spelling matches the sound throughout.
Nicknames for Davonna
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
- 1947
- Most girls named
- 199136 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2380reached in 1993
- Change vs 2021
- −16.7%5 in 2022, from 6
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.
Davonna in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Lavonna in English — related form
- Davonne in English — spelling variant
Davonnas among us
people named Davonna are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Davonna sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Vonna is available inside it as a shorter self-contained name.
- It is read correctly at sight by anybody.
- The rhythm is the three-beat one English handles most comfortably.
- Several near-identical names are in circulation and she will be confused with them.
- There is no meaning to give her and no origin outside the pattern.
- It is closely dated to the second half of the last century.
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Frequently asked
- How many Davonnas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 900 people named Davonna are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Davonna in 2025?
- Davonna is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Davonna with classmates?
- Davonna will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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