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Dava

#15,469 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Dava has been given to 1,487 babies in the U.S. since 1931. In 2025 it ranked #15,469 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1954, with 50 recorded.

Babies named Dava, 2025

1 in 663,000

Dava over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dava: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dava means

Dava is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Dava is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,487 girls were recorded with the name Dava between 1931 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 50 in 1954; its best national rank was #1,425 in 1954.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #12,459 in 2020 to #15,469 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #8,570 in 2015 to #15,469 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Dava?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#15,469
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dava sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dava. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Davas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dava was born before 1973 — so the typical Dava is around 52 today.

Median birth year
1973
About 52 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
20.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
12.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,367
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 20.3% of all recorded uses (302).

Is Dava rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−1,574
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,010
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−6,899
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.38×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
10.0%
Peak was 1954 (50)
Years since peak
71
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,425
1954

Spellings of Dava

Dava is not the most common spelling — Sara is, with 11.4% against Dava's 0.04%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Dava is used

Across 1910–2025, Dava was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 596,929 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Illinois1 in —
  3. 3Missouri1 in —
  4. 4Ohio1 in —
  5. 5Tennessee1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Dava has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Dava by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#15,469
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,010
Best rank ever
#1,425
1954
Peak year
1954
50 that year
First recorded
1931
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,487
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Dava

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Dava

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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