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Baby name
Dave
Boy
Origin of the name
Dave is a short form of David.
Classic name
64,378births since 1880
1950sgeneration
No. 119rank at its peak, in 1959
Where babies named Dave are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Dave is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Dave is most common in Montana (2.5 times), Washington (2.3) and Oregon (2), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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