Dava
Dava was given to 5 girls in 2025, #15,469 among girls’ names; 1,487 Americans have been recorded with it since 1931 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,310 Americans named Dava and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (88% of everyone recorded); the median is 51 years old and half are between 35 and 63.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dava by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Dava mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Dava is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Dava?
#15,469 among girls’ names, 2025
Dava fell from #8,570 in 2015 to #15,469 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 7.3 to 3.1 per million.
50 babies in 1954, the peak
Dava peaked in 1954, when 50 girls were given it, #1,425 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,469 | 3.1 |
| 2024 | 6 | #13,895 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,756 | 3.1 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,366 | 4.9 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,459 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,761 | 4.2 |
| 2018 | 7 | #12,799 | 4.1 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,396 | 7.5 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,245 | 4.0 |
| 2015 | 13 | #8,570 | 7.3 |
Every recorded year (87)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 6 | #15,038 | 3.4 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,453 | 5.7 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,497 | 4.5 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,450 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,572 | 4.5 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,250 | 5.8 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,687 | 6.2 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,603 | 3.2 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,347 | 3.8 |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,874 | 4.4 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,564 | 4.4 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,524 | 7.8 |
| 2001 | 5 | #15,936 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 15 | #6,888 | 8.3 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,582 | 4.5 |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,419 | 10.8 |
| 1997 | 21 | #4,870 | 12.1 |
| 1996 | 14 | #6,473 | 8.0 |
| 1995 | 15 | #6,031 | 8.5 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,280 | 5.6 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,717 | 7.2 |
| 1992 | 18 | #5,321 | 9.8 |
| 1991 | 18 | #5,223 | 9.6 |
| 1990 | 15 | #5,892 | 7.9 |
| 1989 | 22 | #4,268 | 11.9 |
| 1988 | 28 | #3,408 | 15.7 |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,666 | 7.5 |
| 1986 | 19 | #4,221 | 11.1 |
| 1985 | 18 | #4,310 | 10.5 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,615 | 7.1 |
| 1983 | 22 | #3,583 | 13.2 |
| 1982 | 20 | #3,921 | 11.8 |
| 1981 | 18 | #4,187 | 10.8 |
| 1980 | 18 | #4,183 | 10.8 |
| 1979 | 29 | #2,945 | 18.1 |
| 1978 | 28 | #2,878 | 18.3 |
| 1977 | 38 | #2,348 | 24.8 |
| 1976 | 31 | #2,557 | 21.2 |
| 1975 | 22 | #3,183 | 15.1 |
| 1974 | 25 | #2,847 | 17.0 |
| 1973 | 28 | #2,579 | 19.2 |
| 1972 | 36 | #2,141 | 23.7 |
| 1971 | 24 | #2,882 | 14.4 |
| 1970 | 41 | #2,023 | 23.5 |
| 1969 | 38 | #2,033 | 22.5 |
| 1968 | 33 | #2,098 | 20.1 |
| 1967 | 34 | #2,016 | 20.6 |
| 1966 | 25 | #2,413 | 14.8 |
| 1965 | 28 | #2,260 | 15.9 |
| 1964 | 22 | #2,692 | 11.6 |
| 1963 | 11 | #4,068 | 5.7 |
| 1962 | 19 | #2,834 | 9.7 |
| 1961 | 28 | #2,256 | 13.9 |
| 1960 | 24 | #2,448 | 11.9 |
| 1959 | 30 | #2,062 | 14.8 |
| 1958 | 18 | #2,773 | 8.9 |
| 1957 | 19 | #2,673 | 9.3 |
| 1956 | 24 | #2,265 | 12.0 |
| 1955 | 37 | #1,701 | 18.9 |
| 1954 | 50 | #1,425 | 25.7 |
| 1953 | 34 | #1,711 | 18.1 |
| 1952 | 14 | #2,945 | 7.5 |
| 1951 | 22 | #2,134 | 12.2 |
| 1950 | 10 | #3,478 | 5.8 |
| 1949 | 11 | #3,229 | 6.4 |
| 1948 | 14 | #2,727 | 8.2 |
| 1947 | 15 | #2,660 | 8.5 |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,765 | 8.3 |
| 1945 | 8 | #3,446 | 6.1 |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,768 | 5.3 |
| 1943 | 9 | #3,293 | 6.5 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,816 | 5.2 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,644 | 5.8 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,857 | 5.5 |
| 1938 | 9 | #2,979 | 8.2 |
| 1937 | 9 | #2,987 | 8.5 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,463 | 4.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Dava a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dava has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 87 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dava: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dava, and how old are they?
1,310 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 88% of the 1,487 Americans ever recorded as Dava. The median Dava alive today is 51 years old; half are between 35 and 63.
The 2020 Census counted 1,290 people named Dava (1,250 women and girls, 40 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,336 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 28 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 326 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 443 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 267 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 156 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 93 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 3,016 babies since 1880, Dava is the most given (49% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 29 babies (17%), the second most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Dava
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Dava and names like it
- Compare Dava and DaviaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sDava peaked in 1954.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dava since 1910.
- The top names of 1954The year the most babies were named Dava.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Dava alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with DMost given first.