Dava
About 1,487 American babies have been named Dava since 1931, most of them around 1954. In 2025 it ranked 14,942nd. About 1,300 Davas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 50.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Dava
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,487
- Estimated living today
- 1,300
- Median age today
- 50
- Peak year
- 1954
- Best rank
- 1,422nd
- Rank in 2025
- 14,942nd
- First recorded
- 1931
How old the living Davas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,487 babies given the name since 1931, about 1,300 are alive — 89 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1975 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Davas
- Dava Sobel (born 1947)American writer
- Dava Newman (born 1964)Media Lab director and former Deputy Administrator of NASA
People named Dava with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Dava is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Dava is most concentrated in California (3.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1954
The most popular girls’ names the year Dava peaked:
Related names
Dava against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.