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Tevita

#5,583 in 2025Boys' name

Form of David

Tevita has been given to 867 babies in the U.S. since 1979. In 2025 it ranked #5,583 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 31 recorded.

Babies named Tevita, 2025

1 in 195,000

Tevita over time, 1880–2025

Boys
01020304018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tevita: meaning, origin, and history

Form of David

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tevita means

Tevita is a form of David.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include David.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 867 boys were recorded with the name Tevita between 1979 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 31 in 2016; its best national rank was #2,749 in 1994.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,677 in 2020 to #5,583 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,281 in 2015 to #5,583 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 Tevita?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 195,000
17 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 100,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,583
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
135,172 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tevita sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tevita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tevitas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tevita was born before 2005 — so the typical Tevita is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
26.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
60.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
867
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 26.9% of all recorded uses (233).

Is Tevita 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
−549
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−906
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,302
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.71×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
54.8%
Peak was 2016 (31)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,749
1994

Spellings of Tevita

Tevita is not the most common spelling — Tevin is, with 93.1% against Tevita's 6.9%.

  • Tevin93.1%11,717
  • Tevita6.9%867

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 Tevita is used

Across 1910–2025, Tevita was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 9,091 boys, against 1 in 39,271 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in 50,000).

211 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 9,091
  2. 2Hawaii1 in 11,111
  3. 3California1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Tevita has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Tevita around the world

Where Tevita 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.

  • South Australia
    1979–2009
    #708
    in 2009

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Tevita by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,583
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 906
Best rank ever
#2,749
1994
Peak year
2016
31 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
867
Count in 2025
17

Names similar to Tevita

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

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Sibling names for Tevita

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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