Davis was originally an English surname, developed from the given name David. It derived from the Hebrew name Dawid, which means ‘beloved’ or ‘favourite’.
Davis is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
The name Davis isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Davis ranks 475. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 3 were named Davis. In the entire USA, approximately 25,528 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Davis. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their son Davis annualy. This means that there have been boys named Davis who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus men named Davis have consistently been special. A small flight of popularity was experienced by the name way back in the last century and in one particular year, parents liked Davis even more than any other time: in 1901, it holds its present record at rank #314 in the list of the most popular boys' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Davis was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Davis has never been ranked higher than #314. In 2022, he rivaled the 567 names that preceded him on the list. In total, 473 boys named Davis were born in this year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Davis were born, there have been 392 newborns who received this name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter D is a quite popular first letter for boys’ names. That’s because 8.5% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters J and A are more common for boys' names.
With five letters, the name Davis is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 8.5% of all boys' names start with a D, this initial letter occurs nearly 2.5-times as often as all 26 letters on average – and the most common one of all the boys’ names starting with D is David.
If your name is Davis and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Davis, you can simply say:
Dinosaur
Apple
Violin
Igloo
Sun
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Davis
Davis
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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A
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I
S
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
D
A
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S
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Davis sounds like this:
