Davis

Meaning: Son of David
Origin: Variant of Davies · Welsh patronymic surname (from Welsh, English)

Boy's name · #668 in the US (2025) · 2000s wave

Popularity over time

Davis reached its best rank, #338, in 1901 and ranked #668 in 2025. Roughly 32,000 boys have been named Davis since 1880. In all that time it has never once missed a year of the national records.

Across the states

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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 34 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Around the world

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#563 in Ecuador (2025) · #891 in Ireland (2025) · #2,074 in Switzerland (2025) · #779 in Canada (2024).

Famous Davises

Dāvis Bertāns — Latvian basketball player (born 1992)
Davis Cleveland — American actor
Davis Kamoga — Athletics competitor
Davis Guggenheim — American filmmaker
Davis Phinney — Road bicycle racer

As a surname

It is also an American family name — about 1.1 million people carried it as a surname in the 2010 census.

Bette Davis — American actress (1908–1989)
Miles Davis — American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer (1926–1991)
Angela Davis — American political activist, scholar, and author (born 1944)

In stories & tradition

Davis Motomiya^it — Digimon Adventure 02 (anime series)
Davis MacLean — Power Book II: Ghost (TV series)
Davis Bloome — Smallville (TV series)

What Davises become

Among 203 notable people named Davis:

Sports figures appear 2.36× more often than among typical names — e.g. Dāvis Bertāns, Latvian basketball player (born 1992).

Similar names: Coleman · Davion · Houston · Ellis · Blaine · Donovan

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