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Dave
Pronounced /deɪv/
Rank in 2024
#2,018
Born in 2024
76
Peak year
1959 · #119
Origin
Not recorded
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 76 boys were named Dave, about 1 in every 22,570.
- It peaked in 1959 with 3,308 babies, ranked #119.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 64,328 boys have been named Dave since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Dave per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0.4Greatest1901–27
- 0.6Silent1928–45
- 0.9Boomers1946–64
- 0.2Gen X1965–80
- <0.1Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 6,459 babies, 0.39 per 1,000. Silent: 11,452 babies, 0.55 per 1,000. Boomers: 32,347 babies, 0.86 per 1,000. Gen X: 6,780 babies, 0.25 per 1,000. Millennials: 2,179 babies, 0.07 per 1,000. Gen Z: 1,491 babies, 0.05 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 834 babies, 0.04 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
- A diminutive of the male given name David, also used as a formal given name.
- (very rare) A female given name.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /deɪv/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Dave, CC BY-SA 4.0.