Davy
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in French: a surname derived from David
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/davi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Davy is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Congo - Brazzaville it is the 11th most common given name.
- BEBelgium≈1 in 2K(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 7.7K
- BRBrazil1 in 20K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 305 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈24,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Congo - Brazzaville, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A diminutive of the male given name David.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
How Davy is read(measured from records)
Davy is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- French39%
- English28%
A diminutive of the male given name David.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese12%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Davy in Portuguese.
- Dutch6.3%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Davy in Dutch.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Davy counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 58K | — | Davy | 16 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #221 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.7K | — | Davy | 7 |
| BR Brazil | — | 10,338 | 1 in 20K | 10K | Davy | 85 |
| FR France | #845 | ≈8,800 est. | ≈1 in 7.7K | 9.5K | Davy | 305 |
| KH Cambodia | — | ≈7,400 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | — | Davy | 27 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈5,800 est. | ≈1 in 2K | 26 | Davy | 83 |
| CG Congo - Brazzaville | #11 | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Davy | 12 |
| NL Netherlands | — | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 6.1K | 4K | Davy | 22 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Davy is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
English and Scottish: pet form of DAVID . It is fairly extensively used as an independent given name, particularly in Scotland. Variants: Davey, Davie .
as a word
In Czech, nominative/accusative/vocative/instrumental plural of dav
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In gv, a male given name, equivalent to English David
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Davy Crockettb. 1786USAmerican frontiersman and politician (1786–1836)
- Davy Kayeb. 1916GBBritish comedian (1916-1998)
- Davy Jonesb. 1964USAmerican racing driver
- Davy Bonillab. 1973FRFrench jockey
- Davy Sardoub. 1978FRFrench actor
- Davy Choub. 1983FRCambodian-French artist
- Davy Bulthuisb. 1990NLDutch football player
- Davy Pröpperb. 1991NLDutch association football player
- Davy Klaassenb. 1993NLDutch association football player (born 1993)
- Davy Roefb. 1994BEBelgian association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 80 sources across 42 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 10K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 10K | #1,674 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 9.5K | #1,830 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 4K | #856 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 1.9K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 1.7K | #6,699 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 101 | #1,674 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 11 | #27,267 |
Reference works 7
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Davy a male or female name?
- Davy is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- Where does the name Davy come from?
- A diminutive of the male given name David. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Davy?
- A machine transcription gives /davi/ (IPA) for French.
- What are other forms of the name Davy?
- In the etymology graph, Dave, Davi and Dewi are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of David.
- In which country does Davy have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 24 thousand people named Davy in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled davy.
- How common is the name Davy?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 10,338 people named Davy in 2022, about 1 in 20 thousand residents.
- How common is Davy compared with other names?
- In Congo - Brazzaville, Davy is the 11th most common given name of 363 given names recorded there.
- What does the name Davy mean?
- In French, a surname derived from David
What do you want to know about Davy?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/davyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Davy” — the 11th most common given name in Congo - Brazzaville. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.