Deva
Deva is a girl's name that peaked in 1971, when it was the 2,955th most popular in the United States. It has not appeared in the national data since 2024. About 760 Devas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 42.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Deva boys named Deva
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 986
- Estimated living today
- 760
- Median age today
- 42
- Peak year
- 1971
- Best rank
- 2,955th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1911
- Girls / boys
- 964 / 22
How old the living Devas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 986 babies given the name since 1911, about 760 are alive — 77 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1983 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 Devas
- Deva Cassel (born 2004)French-Italian model
- Deva Raya II (died 1446)Vijayanagara emperor
People named Deva with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Deva is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Deva is most concentrated in California (8.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1971
The most popular girls’ names the year Deva peaked:
Deva elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Deva +1 spelling | 1,085 | 584th |
| Italy girls | Deva | 889 | — |
| France boys | Deva +1 spelling | 120 | 3,842nd |
| Switzerland girls | Deva | 110 | 558th |
| Belgium girls | Deva | 99 | 802nd |
| England and Wales girls | Deva | 20 | 4,634th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Deva: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Deva | 36 | 0.003% | 529th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Deva | 61 | 0.014% | 266th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Deva | 13 | 0.020% | 123rd |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Deva: rank by region
In 2024, Deva was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Deva | 341 | 8 |
In 2023, Deva was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Spain.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Principado de Asturias | Deva | 10 | 30 |
In 2024, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Deva appears in the lists for Province of Hainaut (194th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Spain after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Where Deva lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 1,286 women called Deva were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cantabria | Deva | 318 | 1.039 | 169 |
| Asturias | Deva | 502 | 0.946 | 176 |
| Burgos | Deva | 24 | 0.132 | 630 |
| León | Deva | 12 | 0.052 | 1,104 |
| Pontevedra | Deva | 25 | 0.051 | 986 |
| Lugo | Deva | 8 | 0.048 | 1,117 |
Listed in 25 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 27 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Deva against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.