Davina
Davina was given to 363 girls in 2025, #749 among girls’ names; 11,380 Americans have been recorded with it since 1916 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 11,000 Americans named Davina and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 6 and 45.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Davina by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Davina mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Davina is “a female given name from Hebrew, a feminine form of David.”
From David + -ina.
/dəˈviːnə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Davina?
#749 among girls’ names, 2025
Davina rose from #1,173 in 2015 to #749 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.12 to 0.23 per 1,000.
541 babies in 2022, the peak
Davina peaked in 2022, when 541 girls were given it, #562 among girls’ names. The 363 births of 2025 are 67% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 363 | #749 | 0.23 |
| 2024 | 453 | #648 | 0.28 |
| 2023 | 452 | #649 | 0.28 |
| 2022 | 541 | #562 | 0.33 |
| 2021 | 524 | #577 | 0.32 |
| 2020 | 460 | #630 | 0.28 |
| 2019 | 380 | #744 | 0.23 |
| 2018 | 393 | #723 | 0.23 |
| 2017 | 315 | #868 | 0.18 |
| 2016 | 273 | #982 | 0.15 |
Every recorded year (87)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 215 | #1,173 | 0.12 |
| 2014 | 188 | #1,276 | 0.11 |
| 2013 | 120 | #1,727 | 0.07 |
| 2012 | 108 | #1,861 | 0.06 |
| 2011 | 125 | #1,684 | 0.07 |
| 2010 | 112 | #1,823 | 0.06 |
| 2009 | 118 | #1,825 | 0.06 |
| 2008 | 104 | #2,012 | 0.05 |
| 2007 | 101 | #2,023 | 0.05 |
| 2006 | 88 | #2,194 | 0.05 |
| 2005 | 72 | #2,435 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 81 | #2,194 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 96 | #1,900 | 0.05 |
| 2002 | 96 | #1,853 | 0.05 |
| 2001 | 105 | #1,714 | 0.06 |
| 2000 | 96 | #1,798 | 0.05 |
| 1999 | 126 | #1,398 | 0.07 |
| 1998 | 124 | #1,382 | 0.07 |
| 1997 | 115 | #1,440 | 0.07 |
| 1996 | 121 | #1,384 | 0.07 |
| 1995 | 90 | #1,637 | 0.05 |
| 1994 | 99 | #1,554 | 0.06 |
| 1993 | 119 | #1,374 | 0.07 |
| 1992 | 144 | #1,206 | 0.08 |
| 1991 | 125 | #1,320 | 0.07 |
| 1990 | 147 | #1,164 | 0.08 |
| 1989 | 126 | #1,249 | 0.07 |
| 1988 | 159 | #1,021 | 0.09 |
| 1987 | 163 | #971 | 0.09 |
| 1986 | 142 | #1,061 | 0.08 |
| 1985 | 100 | #1,324 | 0.06 |
| 1984 | 148 | #976 | 0.09 |
| 1983 | 150 | #973 | 0.09 |
| 1982 | 148 | #998 | 0.09 |
| 1981 | 176 | #872 | 0.11 |
| 1980 | 176 | #872 | 0.11 |
| 1979 | 201 | #789 | 0.13 |
| 1978 | 183 | #820 | 0.12 |
| 1977 | 178 | #838 | 0.12 |
| 1976 | 187 | #768 | 0.13 |
| 1975 | 181 | #778 | 0.12 |
| 1974 | 178 | #777 | 0.12 |
| 1973 | 176 | #764 | 0.12 |
| 1972 | 176 | #778 | 0.12 |
| 1971 | 184 | #788 | 0.11 |
| 1970 | 155 | #866 | 0.09 |
| 1969 | 138 | #899 | 0.08 |
| 1968 | 156 | #811 | 0.10 |
| 1967 | 88 | #1,120 | 0.05 |
| 1966 | 65 | #1,353 | 0.04 |
| 1965 | 66 | #1,352 | 0.04 |
| 1964 | 45 | #1,734 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 46 | #1,687 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 29 | #2,218 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 21 | #2,688 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 14 | #3,385 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 15 | #3,138 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 19 | #2,681 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 16 | #2,952 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 21 | #2,473 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 18 | #2,649 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,267 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 15 | #2,840 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 16 | #2,702 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 16 | #2,602 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 14 | #2,800 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 11 | #3,230 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 12 | #3,003 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,081 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,693 | under 0.01 |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,444 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 9 | #3,296 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,543 | under 0.01 |
| 1940 | 6 | #3,959 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,751 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 5 | #4,970 | under 0.01 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,578 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Davina a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Davina 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 Davina: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Davina, and how old are they?
11,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 11,380 Americans ever recorded as Davina. The median Davina alive today is 22 years old; half are between 6 and 45.
The 2020 Census counted 7,440 people named Davina (7,430 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 8,440 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 17 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 276 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,320 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,100 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,650 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,650 |
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).
Where are babies named Davina born?
The states with the most babies named Davina are California, Texas and Pennsylvania, with 31% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 51 | #623 | 1.6× |
| Texas | 37 | #806 | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 15 | #662 | 0.7× |
| New York | 14 | #1,040 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 14 | #1,071 | 0.8× |
| Arizona | 14 | #488 | 1.7× |
| Georgia | 13 | #757 | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 12 | #762 | 0.7× |
| Colorado | 11 | #508 | 0.9× |
| Virginia | 11 | #671 | 0.5× |
Where Davina is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Davina is most over-represented in Arizona: since 1916 it was given 1.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Davina with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 15,589 babies since 1880, Davina is the most given (73% of them). In 2025 it was given to 363 of their 393 babies (92%), again the most given.
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 Davina
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 Davina and names like it
- Compare Davina and DavonnaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sDavina peaked in 2022.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Davina since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Davina.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Davina alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with DMost given first.