Deva
Deva was last recorded in 2024, when 15 babies were given it; 986 Americans have been recorded with it between 1911 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Deva by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Deva?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #10,487, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
23 babies in 1971, the peak
Deva peaked in 1971, when 23 girls were given it, #2,982 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 9 | #10,487 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,466 | 4.4 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,577 | 4.3 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,145 | 7.9 |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,736 | 6.2 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,257 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,069 | 4.1 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,094 | 5.1 |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,369 | 3.9 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,442 | 3.9 |
Every recorded year (100)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 5 | #17,243 | 2.8 |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,868 | 4.0 |
| 2010 | 13 | #8,854 | 7.3 |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,744 | 4.4 |
| 2008 | 5 | #18,263 | 2.6 |
| 2007 | 8 | #12,990 | 4.2 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,153 | 4.9 |
| 2004 | 9 | #10,917 | 4.9 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,654 | 6.6 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,069 | 3.3 |
| 2001 | 5 | #15,993 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,000 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,702 | 5.1 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,214 | 7.4 |
| 1997 | 16 | #5,952 | 9.2 |
| 1996 | 14 | #6,478 | 8.0 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,650 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,410 | 7.8 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,220 | 5.5 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,655 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,736 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,668 | 4.7 |
| 1989 | 8 | #8,958 | 4.3 |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,111 | 9.0 |
| 1987 | 10 | #6,923 | 5.8 |
| 1986 | 12 | #5,859 | 7.0 |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,432 | 7.6 |
| 1984 | 18 | #4,201 | 10.7 |
| 1983 | 11 | #5,916 | 6.6 |
| 1982 | 17 | #4,388 | 10.0 |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,335 | 7.8 |
| 1980 | 14 | #5,044 | 8.4 |
| 1979 | 16 | #4,467 | 10.0 |
| 1978 | 18 | #3,953 | 11.8 |
| 1977 | 21 | #3,509 | 13.7 |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,688 | 8.9 |
| 1975 | 12 | #4,926 | 8.2 |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,288 | 9.5 |
| 1973 | 17 | #3,669 | 11.7 |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,137 | 9.2 |
| 1971 | 23 | #2,982 | 13.8 |
| 1970 | 17 | #3,622 | 9.7 |
| 1969 | 17 | #3,355 | 10.1 |
| 1968 | 12 | #4,053 | 7.3 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,040 | 3.0 |
| 1966 | 8 | #4,972 | 4.7 |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,767 | 2.8 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,123 | 4.2 |
| 1963 | 10 | #4,331 | 5.2 |
| 1962 | 12 | #3,836 | 6.1 |
| 1960 | 13 | #3,545 | 6.4 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,159 | 3.5 |
| 1958 | 10 | #4,003 | 5.0 |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,023 | 3.4 |
| 1956 | 7 | #4,953 | 3.5 |
| 1955 | 10 | #3,846 | 5.1 |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,319 | 4.3 |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,112 | 4.4 |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,332 | 4.1 |
| 1948 | 12 | #3,008 | 7.1 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,498 | 2.8 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,554 | 3.8 |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,891 | 5.0 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,826 | 5.2 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,558 | 4.1 |
| 1939 | 9 | #2,968 | 8.2 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,342 | 4.8 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,363 | 4.8 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,426 | 4.8 |
| 1933 | 8 | #3,179 | 7.9 |
| 1932 | 8 | #3,343 | 7.5 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,743 | 6.2 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,734 | 4.5 |
| 1928 | 9 | #3,236 | 7.8 |
| 1927 | 5 | #4,981 | 4.2 |
| 1926 | 12 | #2,740 | 10.1 |
| 1925 | 9 | #3,436 | 7.4 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,257 | 4.0 |
| 1923 | 11 | #2,967 | 9.1 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,582 | 5.0 |
| 1921 | 9 | #3,473 | 7.3 |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,696 | 6.7 |
| 1919 | 7 | #3,925 | 6.2 |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,007 | 4.3 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,754 | 4.6 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,635 | 6.7 |
| 1915 | 14 | #2,160 | 14.2 |
| 1914 | 8 | #2,703 | 10.5 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,297 | 8.0 |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,564 | 12.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Deva a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 986 Americans recorded as Deva, 98% are girls and 2% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Deva: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Deva, and how old are they?
An estimated 754 Americans named Deva and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (77% of everyone recorded); the median is 43 years old and half are between 27 and 55. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 923 people named Deva (753 women and girls, 170 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 739 born in the U.S. The Census count is 25% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 4 names spelled alike, given to 2,227 babies since 1880, Deva is the second most given (44% of them). In 2025 none of their 65 babies recorded by SSA was a Deva (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Deva
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 Deva and names like it
- Compare Deva and DeviBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sDeva peaked in 1971.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Deva since 1910.
- The top names of 1971The year the most babies were named Deva.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Deva alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with DMost given first.