Divine
Divine is given to both girls and boys: 104 girls and 68 boys were given it in 2025 (#1,888 among girls’ names and #2,130 among boys’, #2,441 among all names counting both); 4,328 Americans have been recorded with it since 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026). Girls have outnumbered boys among babies named Divine every year since 2025.
An estimated 4,280 Americans named Divine and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 6 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Divine by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Divine?
#1,888 among girls’ names, 2025
Divine rose from #2,361 in 2015 to #1,888 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 43.7 to 64.7 per million.
219 babies in 2022, the peak
Divine peaked in 2022, when 219 babies were given it (118 girls, #1,759 among girls’ names). The 172 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 79% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 104 | #1,888 | 68 | #2,130 |
| 2024 | 97 | #2,015 | 104 | #1,634 |
| 2023 | 114 | #1,784 | 99 | #1,704 |
| 2022 | 118 | #1,759 | 101 | #1,696 |
| 2021 | 105 | #1,887 | 78 | #1,934 |
| 2020 | 114 | #1,755 | 72 | #1,983 |
| 2019 | 87 | #2,144 | 75 | #1,958 |
| 2018 | 89 | #2,136 | 37 | #3,117 |
| 2017 | 101 | #1,965 | 52 | #2,463 |
| 2016 | 87 | #2,210 | 42 | #2,846 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 78 | #2,361 | 37 | #3,097 |
| 2014 | 73 | #2,480 | 48 | #2,549 |
| 2013 | 83 | #2,242 | 36 | #3,067 |
| 2012 | 87 | #2,165 | 50 | #2,501 |
| 2011 | 84 | #2,244 | 36 | #3,125 |
| 2010 | 91 | #2,155 | 49 | #2,522 |
| 2009 | 79 | #2,431 | 44 | #2,766 |
| 2008 | 79 | #2,423 | 44 | #2,758 |
| 2007 | 82 | #2,334 | 48 | #2,570 |
| 2006 | 78 | #2,405 | 45 | #2,628 |
| 2005 | 84 | #2,189 | 44 | #2,532 |
| 2004 | 69 | #2,453 | 39 | #2,707 |
| 2003 | 73 | #2,303 | 37 | #2,682 |
| 2002 | 79 | #2,124 | 41 | #2,434 |
| 2001 | 84 | #2,012 | 48 | #2,160 |
| 2000 | 67 | #2,308 | 56 | #1,876 |
| 1999 | 69 | #2,183 | 47 | #2,033 |
| 1998 | 29 | #3,947 | 47 | #2,018 |
| 1997 | 28 | #3,924 | 35 | #2,355 |
| 1996 | 19 | #5,117 | 33 | #2,392 |
| 1995 | 15 | #6,042 | 28 | #2,633 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,414 | 43 | #1,933 |
| 1993 | under 5 | 21 | #3,167 | |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,876 | 24 | #2,855 |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,908 | 16 | #3,689 |
| 1990 | under 5 | 20 | #3,080 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 18 | #3,230 | |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,321 | 12 | #3,971 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,194 | 7 | #5,648 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,413 | 9 | #4,563 |
| 1985 | under 5 | 17 | #2,856 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 6 | #5,766 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 5 | #6,498 | |
| 1981 | under 5 | 7 | #5,077 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 5 | #6,507 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 5 | #6,306 | |
| 1976 | under 5 | 6 | #5,101 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Divine a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 4,328 Americans recorded as Divine, 57% are girls and 43% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Divine: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Divine, and how old are they?
4,280 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,328 Americans ever recorded as Divine. The median Divine alive today is 14 years old; half are between 6 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 3,467 people named Divine (2,107 women and girls, 1,360 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,167 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 15 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 328 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,850 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,090 |
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 Divine born?
The states with the most babies named Divine are Texas, New York and California, with 64% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 21 | #1,480 | 0.8× |
| New York | 19 | #1,437 | 2.3× |
| California | 14 | #1,600 | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,177 | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,287 | 0.4× |
| North Carolina | 6 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,077 | 0.4× |
| Florida | 5 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Divine is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Divine is most over-represented in New York: since 1976 it was given 2.3 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 Divine 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 5,770 babies since 1880, Divine is the most given (75% of them). In 2025 it was given to 172 of their 214 babies (80%), 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 Divine
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 Divine and names like it
- Compare Divine and DivinaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sDivine peaked in 2022.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Divine since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Divine.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Divine alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with DMost given first.