Deva
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Deva has been given to 986 babies in the U.S. since 1911. 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 1971, with 23 recorded.
Babies named Deva, 2024
1 in 371,000
Deva over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Deva?
Deva 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 371,000
- 9 of 3,342,801 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 180,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 257,451 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Deva sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 257,451 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Deva. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Devas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Deva was born before 1976 — so the typical Deva is around 49 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 17.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 18.4%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 733
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 17.1% of all recorded uses (165).
Is Deva 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 1971 (23)
- Years since peak
- 54
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 32.0% average annual change
Spellings of Deva
Deva is not the most common spelling — Debra is, with 19.0% against Deva's 0.03%.
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 Deva is used
Across 1910–2025, Deva was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 455,655 across all states with data. It was least common in Missouri (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Missouri1 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. Deva has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Deva around the world
Where Deva 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 & Wales1996–2023#4,710in 2023
- France2004–2025#584in 2025
- Canada2022–2022#3,322in 2022
- South Australia1981–2011#840in 2011
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Deva by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Deva
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Deva
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.