Divya
Divya was given to 23 girls in 2025, #5,448 among girls’ names; 2,685 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,650 Americans named Divya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 15 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Divya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Divya mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Divya is “a female given name from Sanskrit.” Its etymology gives the sense “divine, charming, heavenly” (दिव्य).
Also “a male given name from Sanskrit.”
Borrowed from Sanskrit दिव्या (divyā́), feminine of दिव्य (divyá, “divine, charming, heavenly”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Divya?
#5,448 among girls’ names, 2025
Divya fell from #2,974 in 2015 to #5,448 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 32.5 to 14.3 per million.
113 babies in 2001, the peak
Divya peaked in 2001, when 113 girls were given it, #1,620 among girls’ names. The 23 births of 2025 are 20% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23 | #5,448 | 14.3 |
| 2024 | 22 | #5,671 | 13.6 |
| 2023 | 34 | #4,213 | 21.2 |
| 2022 | 40 | #3,780 | 24.4 |
| 2021 | 32 | #4,343 | 19.5 |
| 2020 | 46 | #3,351 | 28.5 |
| 2019 | 39 | #3,810 | 23.2 |
| 2018 | 53 | #3,062 | 31.2 |
| 2017 | 42 | #3,647 | 24.3 |
| 2016 | 48 | #3,342 | 27.1 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 58 | #2,974 | 32.5 |
| 2014 | 77 | #2,379 | 43.1 |
| 2013 | 64 | #2,709 | 36.5 |
| 2012 | 76 | #2,431 | 43.2 |
| 2011 | 95 | #2,047 | 54.0 |
| 2010 | 102 | #1,963 | 57.4 |
| 2009 | 87 | #2,248 | 47.4 |
| 2008 | 82 | #2,359 | 43.4 |
| 2007 | 83 | #2,315 | 43.2 |
| 2006 | 108 | #1,882 | 56.8 |
| 2005 | 97 | #1,971 | 52.5 |
| 2004 | 96 | #1,947 | 52.3 |
| 2003 | 113 | #1,688 | 61.8 |
| 2002 | 103 | #1,756 | 57.3 |
| 2001 | 113 | #1,620 | 62.8 |
| 2000 | 109 | #1,620 | 60.0 |
| 1999 | 98 | #1,680 | 55.2 |
| 1998 | 82 | #1,869 | 46.4 |
| 1997 | 67 | #2,101 | 38.5 |
| 1996 | 72 | #1,966 | 41.1 |
| 1995 | 59 | #2,251 | 33.6 |
| 1994 | 47 | #2,630 | 26.3 |
| 1993 | 66 | #2,066 | 36.5 |
| 1992 | 57 | #2,295 | 30.9 |
| 1991 | 29 | #3,647 | 15.5 |
| 1990 | 33 | #3,303 | 17.4 |
| 1989 | 34 | #3,114 | 18.4 |
| 1988 | 27 | #3,501 | 15.2 |
| 1987 | 17 | #4,711 | 9.8 |
| 1986 | 21 | #3,915 | 12.2 |
| 1985 | 20 | #4,013 | 11.6 |
| 1984 | 17 | #4,369 | 10.1 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,541 | 7.2 |
| 1982 | 16 | #4,568 | 9.4 |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,336 | 7.8 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,593 | 4.8 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,293 | 3.7 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,531 | 5.9 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,021 | 3.3 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,421 | 4.1 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,627 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Divya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Divya has been given almost only to girls: 16 boys in 51 years of records.
Girls and boys named Divya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Divya, and how old are they?
2,650 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,685 Americans ever recorded as Divya. The median Divya alive today is 22 years old; half are between 15 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 8,066 people named Divya (7,892 women and girls, 174 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,473 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.3 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 38 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 527 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,510 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 580 |
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 Divya born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 5 | #3,221 | 1.0× |
Where Divya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Divya is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1971 it was given 2.9 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 Divya 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 3,333 babies since 1880, Divya is the most given (81% of them). In 2025 it was given to 23 of their 35 babies (66%), 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 Divya
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 Divya and names like it
- Compare Divya and DivaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDivya peaked in 2001.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Divya since 1910.
- Sanskrit namesWiktionary’s origin for Divya: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Divya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Divya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.