Davis

What Davis means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Davis yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #668 vs #5,137 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Davis?

US: Falling: down from #474 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #2707 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2001, when 733 boys got the name (#362 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 4,176 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 90,645 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in AL (0.98 per 1,000 boys), MS (0.92 per 1,000 boys), NC (0.68 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Davis is #668 in the US and #5137 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 94.2% of US babies named Davis were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

Wiktionary only lists the UK pronunciation so far.

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Tavis9 US
• Deyvis7 US
• Deivis5 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Davis

Boys

• Hunter#130From the word “hunter”^*
• Peyton#683Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 2007, with 3,375 babies; 398 in 2025
• Cole#182“coal, coal-black”^*
• Quinn#466“descendant of Chief”^*
• Logan#53“little hollow”^*
• Keaton#769possibly “hedge, enclosure + farmstead, settlement”^*

For a sister

• Mckenna#410Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1972, with 5 babies
• Makenzie#700Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #210 in 2015, #700 in 2025
• Madison#40Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1970, with 5 babies
• Payton#440“enclosure; settlement, town”^*
• Hailey#104“hay + clearing”^*
• Makenna#593Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 2005, with 1,619 babies; 495 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under From a surname, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Davis’s. Rank is US 2025.