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Davis

masculine

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"Son of David" — Davis is a patronymic surname built directly on the given name David, rather than carrying a separate lexical meaning of its own.

Why it works

  • English speakers will almost certainly pronounce it correctly on the first try
  • spelling is short and predictable — rarely needs repeating

Popularity

Uncommon — #668 in the latest U.S. ranking.

Meaning and origin

Davis means "Son of David" — Davis is a patronymic surname built directly on the given name David, rather than carrying a separate lexical meaning of its own.

Davis functions in US usage as a transferred-surname given name; it is one of the most common surnames in English-speaking countries (7th most common in the 2000 US census) rather than a name with a distinct given-name-specific cultural tradition.

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How it travels

English and Turkish are shown by default; German is included when it adds a meaningfully different reading.

EnglishDAY-visresearched pronunciation
TurkishNo strong structural signal of Turkish/English divergence for this spelling.deterministic phonetic analysis
GermanNo strong structural signal of German/English divergence for this spelling.deterministic phonetic analysis

Spelling stability: highbased on letter-pattern analysis, not a documented linguistic fact.

Also documented

English (IPA): /ˈdeɪ.vɪs/

Popularity without panic

Uncommon#668 in the latest U.S. ranking.

Still uncommon, but no longer unfamiliar.

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Real-world considerations

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