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Davanta vs Davina

American parents have registered 11,380 Davinas since 1880, against 86 Davantas. Davina is still ahead, with 363 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Davanta against Davina, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Davanta Davina

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Davina has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1916 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1997, when Davanta had 13 and Davina had 115.

Side by side

  Davanta Davina
Total US births 8611,380
Most in one year 14541
Babies in 2025 under 5363
Estimated living today 8011,000
Median age today 2921
Peak year 19922022
Best rank 4,114th boys562nd girls
Rank in 2025 unranked749th
First recorded 19921916
Girls / boys 0 / 8611,380 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Davantas alive today are over 29; half the Davinas are over 21. That is 8 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Davanta and Davina.