Diva
Diva was given to 12 girls in 2025, #8,499 among girls’ names; 638 Americans have been recorded with it since 1917 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Diva by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Diva?
#8,499 among girls’ names, 2025
Diva rose from #8,582 in 2015 to #8,499 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 7.3 to 7.5 per million.
24 babies in 1993, the peak
Diva peaked in 1993, when 24 girls were given it, #4,288 among girls’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 50% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,499 | 7.5 |
| 2024 | 16 | #7,014 | 9.9 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,347 | 9.3 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,475 | 4.9 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,612 | 7.3 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,484 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,283 | 6.6 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,490 | 8.8 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,552 | 8.7 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,696 | 8.5 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 13 | #8,582 | 7.3 |
| 2014 | 17 | #7,081 | 9.5 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,303 | 4.6 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,636 | 5.7 |
| 2011 | 11 | #9,909 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,621 | 9.0 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,168 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,152 | 9.5 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,651 | 7.3 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,659 | 3.2 |
| 2005 | 5 | #17,214 | 2.7 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,424 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,214 | 6.0 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,014 | 6.1 |
| 2001 | 11 | #8,921 | 6.1 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,728 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,592 | 8.5 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,147 | 6.2 |
| 1997 | 21 | #4,878 | 12.1 |
| 1996 | 13 | #6,832 | 7.4 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,175 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 23 | #4,407 | 12.9 |
| 1993 | 24 | #4,288 | 13.3 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,659 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,076 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,495 | 4.2 |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,355 | 8.7 |
| 1988 | 18 | #4,695 | 10.1 |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,673 | 7.5 |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,779 | 9.3 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,629 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 14 | #5,014 | 8.3 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,540 | 7.2 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,660 | 4.7 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,347 | 4.2 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,677 | 3.4 |
| 1970 | 8 | #5,952 | 4.6 |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,776 | 2.8 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,454 | 3.6 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,038 | 3.1 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,308 | 3.5 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,742 | 4.5 |
| 1927 | 5 | #4,984 | 4.2 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,591 | 4.8 |
| 1922 | 7 | #4,107 | 5.8 |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,808 | 6.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Diva a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Diva has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 56 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Diva: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Diva, and how old are they?
An estimated 595 Americans named Diva and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 12 and 35. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,026 people named Diva (1,015 women and girls, 11 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 533 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.9 times 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 3,323 babies since 1880, Diva is the second most given (19% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 35 babies (34%), again the second 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 Diva
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 Diva and names like it
- Compare Diva and DivyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDiva peaked in 1993.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Diva since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Diva.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Diva alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.