Davie

loc · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Davie is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States. Recorded meaning: Togo: town known for a unique style of cemetery headstones.

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  • USUnited States
  • BSBahamas
  • GBUnited Kingdom

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
303 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Togo: town known for a unique style of cemetery headstones.

Sources 1

  • African Names

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Davie counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Davie is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—3.4KDavie303
GB United Kingdom—3Davie176
RU Russia——Davie10
BS Bahamas——Davie5
CA Canada—1Davie114
NL Netherlands—116—11
GY Guyana—62—4
CR Costa Rica—48——

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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Davie is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Colombia, Portugal, Uruguay

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Daviè, Davié

63 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1700180019002000William Richardson Davie, b. 1756Cedric Thorpe Davie, b. 1913Alan Davie, b. 1920Davie Wilson, b. 1939Scott Davie, b. 1940Art Davie, b. 1947Davie Robb, b. 1947Davie Cooper, b. 1956Tim Davie, b. 1967Davie Selke, b. 1995

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 40 sources across 27 countries.

Official registers attesting Davie
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020103.4K#9,544
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020003.3K#9,029
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020203.3K#9,420
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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

What does the name Davie mean, and where does it come from?
Togo: town known for a unique style of cemetery headstones. Recorded by African Names.
In which country does Davie have the most bearers?
Davie is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled davie.

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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, “Davie”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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