Davetta — girls' name
543 babies named Davetta in U.S. Social Security records since 1932, with the highest year being 1972. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
26% of everyone ever named Davetta was born in this single decade.
23 babies were named Davetta in 1972 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Davetta
The Social Security Administration has registered 543 babies named Davetta between 1932 and 1995, spanning 64 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Davetta currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1995. The name reached its historical peak in 1972, when 23 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Davetta performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 141 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Davetta shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.
No etymological entry is currently available for Davetta in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 543 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Davetta at a glance
Last recorded 1995Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Davetta popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1995–1932
- Peak year (1972)
- 23
- Annual births at peak — across 64 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1995.
543 total births across 64 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1972 with 23 births in a single year.
Davetta by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1960s
- 141 births that decade — 26% of Davetta's all-time total
Davetta decade highlights
- Peak decade 141 births
- Runner-up 131 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1960s was Davetta's strongest decade
141 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 26% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1932–1995 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.