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The name Dave is a diminutive form of David. The table below indicates the number of times the name Dave has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Dave**
Use of the Name Dave for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
61,616	31,197	2,009	0	0	0	0

The table below indicates the number of times the name Dave has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. Dave last appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1993, the last year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Dave**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	102	131	976	4
1881	95	135
1882	106	139	939	5
1883	101	135
1884	97	159
1885	109	128
1886	112	139
1887	120	111
1888	114	146
1889	120	116
1890	110	152
1891	113	124
1892	122	138
1893	134	113
1894	121	129
1895	120	139
1896	141	118
1897	134	121
1898	140	127
1899	133	120
1900	135	166
1901	149	106
1902	157	112
1903	185	88
1904	177	102
1905	150	137
1906	185	98
1907	193	107
1908	184	116
1909	208	102
1910	169	177
1911	219	135
1912	233	222
1913	235	249
1914	265	268
1915	293	295
1916	281	330
1917	290	322
1918	286	359
1919	280	358
1920	292	372
1921	332	320
1922	319	324
1923	325	320
1924	310	341
1925	300	362
1926	301	356
1927	297	373
1928	309	325
1929	303	331
1930	308	338
1931	282	385
1932	277	388
1933	272	372
1934	251	459
1935	247	468
1936	220	528
1937	205	592
1938	202	627
1939	194	665
1940	186	767
1941	175	866
1942	164	1,052
1943	166	1,089
1944	163	1,126
1945	164	1,078
1946	160	1,395
1947	155	1,687
1948	161	1,498
1949	182	1,165
1950	216	871
1951	245	747
1952	243	768
1953	246	762
1954	241	833
1955	223	1,048
1956	200	1,356
1957	154	2,178
1958	126	2,954
1959	119	3,309
1960	122	3,046
1961	130	2,793
1962	145	2,363
1963	161	1,997
1964	179	1,534
1965	211	1,157
1966	240	867
1967	258	772
1968	284	668
1969	327	559
1970	354	523
1971	400	409
1972	448	313
1973	502	243
1974	524	228
1975	590	187
1976	609	180
1977	609	189
1978	660	161
1979	686	154
1980	684	160
1981	659	170
1982	666	172
1983	714	145
1984	704	152
1985	728	146
1986	769	139
1987	804	133
1988	743	162
1989	898	127
1990	915	126
1991	910	133
1992	979	122
1993	976	122
Totals:		61,616		9

During the last 125 years, parents have used Dave as a boy's name about 99% of the time and less frequently (about 0% of the time) as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are slightly lower than actual counts because the name Dave appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 114 times during the last 125 years.

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