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Divya

#5,448 in 2025Girls' name

Divine, charming, heavenly

Divya has been given to 2,685 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #5,448 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2001, with 113 recorded.

Babies named Divya, 2025

1 in 144,000

Divya over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Divya: meaning, origin, and history

Divine, charming, heavenly

Sanskrit

What Divya means

Divya means “divine, charming, heavenly”, associated with divyá.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Sanskrit दिव्या (divyā́), feminine of दिव्य (divyá, “divine, charming, heavenly”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Divya (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Divya is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,669 girls were recorded with the name Divya between 1971 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 113 in 2001; its best national rank was #1,620 in 2000.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,351 in 2020 to #5,448 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,974 in 2015 to #5,448 in 2025.

In the United States, 16 boys were recorded with the name Divya between 2010 and 2013. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2013; its best national rank was #11,092 in 2013.

How common is Divya?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 144,000
23 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 69,900
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,448
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
99,910 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Divya 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 99,910 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Divya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Divyas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Divya was born before 2004 — so the typical Divya is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
37.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
64.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,669
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 37.1% of all recorded uses (991).

Is Divya 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
+223
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,097
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,474
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.40×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
20.4%
Peak was 2001 (113)
Years since peak
24
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,620
2000

Spellings of Divya

Divya is not the most common spelling — Diana is, with 57.6% against Divya's 0.42%.

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 Divya is used

Across 1910–2025, Divya was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 78,300 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 20,000
  2. 2California1 in 50,000
  3. 3New York1 in 50,000
  4. 4Florida1 in 100,000
  5. 5Illinois1 in 100,000
  6. 6Massachusetts1 in 100,000
  7. 7Maryland1 in 100,000
  8. 8Michigan1 in 100,000

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. Divya has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Divya around the world

Where Divya 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
    1996–2025
    #4,201
    in 2025
  • France
    1985–2025
    #3,289
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #3,027
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1997–2013
    #536
    in 2013

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.

Notable people named Divya

People whose public names include Divya, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Divya by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,448
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,097
Best rank ever
#1,620
2000
Peak year
2001
113 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,669
Count in 2025
23

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#11,092
2013
Peak year
2013
6 that year
First recorded
2010
Last recorded
2013
All-time count
16
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Divya

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

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Names with a curve like Divya

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Divya, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

KaileighJennahKailiDeziraeShaylynnCarringtonKyliKailahKarismaArissaRayannaKatya

Sibling names for Divya

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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