Dayvon
Masculine
Dayvon joins a Day- front to the -von ending, and it belongs to a documented American naming workshop.
How old is the name Dayvon?
Dayvon first appears in US birth records in 1982 — 43 years ago. The typical Dayvon alive today was born around 2004, making them about 21 years old. About 1,700 people named Dayvon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Dayvon most popular?
Dayvon peaked in 1994, reaching #1421 nationally. Today it ranks #2604, 1,183 places below that high. See the whole 1994 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Dayvon
Our story of Dayvon is a story of a stock of parts. African-American families from the 1970s built given names from fronts — Da-, Ja-, De-, Tre- — and endings — -von, -vion, -shawn — producing names in no borrowed tradition. Davon, Dayvon, Javon and Trevon come out of the same set. Dayvon appears in the registers from the 1980s, and that workshop is the history.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No documented etymology. It is a modern American coinage on the Day- or Da- front and -von ending, alongside Davon, Javon and Jayvon. Attributions to older languages are not supported. Honest sources record it as a coinage.
Pronouncing Dayvon
DAY-von
Two syllables, stress on the first. Dayvon and Davon are said nearly identically.
Nicknames for Dayvon
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
- 1982
- Most boys named
- 202181 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1421reached in 1994
- Change vs 2024
- 0.0%50 in 2025, from 50
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.
Dayvon in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Davon in English — spelling variant
- Daevon in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Florida, Georgia, Texas.
Dayvons among us
people named Dayvon are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 34,162 born in 2025 was named Dayvon
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Dayvon
- #2604
- Dayvon on the 2025 chart
- #868
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Dayvon went to 50 boys in 2025, but Daivon 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 — 1,736 places above the chart.
- Dayvon50
- Daivon10
About 1 boy in 28,468 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 34,162 for Dayvon 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 Celso test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Dayvon's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Celso climbed just as high around 1910, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Celso's path sketches the road Dayvon is walking now.
Dayvon 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 Dayvon is headed
Dayvon looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 24% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low 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.
Dayvon beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Dayvon in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Day and Von are two short forms, both usable.
- Two clean syllables with no pronunciation risk.
- It records a real and documented American naming tradition.
- There is no inherited meaning.
- Several spellings of the sound are in circulation.
- It is period-coded to the 1980s and 1990s.
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Frequently asked
- How many Dayvons are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,700 people named Dayvon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Dayvon?
- Dayvon is the most-used spelling in US records — 50 of the 60 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Daivon.
- How popular is the name Dayvon in 2025?
- Dayvon ranks #2604 among US boy names in 2025, with 50 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Dayvon?
- About 1 in every 34,162 US boys born in 2025 was named Dayvon — 50 in all.
- Will my child share the name Dayvon with classmates?
- Dayvon will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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