Davena

Girls' name

Variant of Davina

Davena has been given to 412 babies in the U.S. since 1946. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1980, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Davena, 2024

1 in 669,000

Davena over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Davena: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Davina

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Davena means

Davena is a variant of Davina.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Davena is used in English (Rare).

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Davena → Davina → David. The family’s meaning is “beloved”, recorded in English with the source elements dāwiḏ.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Davina.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 412 girls were recorded with the name Davena between 1946 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 17 in 1980; its best national rank was #3,650 in 1968.

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 Davena?

Davena had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024: 1 in 669,000; 5 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only: 1 in 324,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 463,412 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Davena 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 2024 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Davena. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Davenas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Davena was born before 1977 — so the typical Davena is around 48 today.

Median birth year: 1977; About 48 years old
Biggest decade: 1970s; 25.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 5.1%; Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950: 407; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1970s — 25.7% of all recorded uses (106).

Is Davena 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1980 (17)
Years since peak: 45; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 34.4% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,650; 1968

Spellings of Davena

Davena is not the most common spelling — Dana is, with 38.6% against Davena's 0.08%.

Dana38.6%193,555
Raven9.0%44,920
Dena6.5%32,479
Danna5.0%25,106
Haven4.6%22,889
Alena3.2%16,014
Dayana3.1%15,598
Dayna2.9%14,460

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.

Davena around the world

Where Davena ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

England & Wales
1999–1999
#3,900
in 1999
South Australia
1963–1963
#644
in 1963

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Davena by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #3,650; 1968
Peak year: 1980; 17 that year
First recorded: 1946
Last recorded: 2024
All-time count: 412
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Davena

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

Daveena Daveah Daviona Zelena Davanee Davey Davine Adeena Eleena Halena Daviana Gimena Cerena Alaena Davona Davis Davy Davie Valena Syrena Mylena Davita Davene Davia

Sibling names for Davena

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

For a sister

Charissa Sharonda Shameka Tosha Candi Siobhan Starla Shamika

For a brother

Leopoldo Jerod Wilfredo Antwan Ashley Chauncey Kareem Cedrick

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