Davia
Feminine · “beloved”
Latin made feminines by adding -ia, and English has been borrowing the trick for four hundred years. Julia, Claudia, Octavia and Cornelia all carry it, and it is the ending English reaches for whenever a men's name needs a woman's version that sounds formal. Davia is that ending applied to David, and Dava is the same name with a shorter one.
How old is the name Davia?
Davia first appears in US birth records in 1945 — 80 years ago. The typical Davia alive today was born around 1997, making them about 28 years old. About 1,200 people named Davia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Davia most popular?
Davia peaked in 1999, reaching #2854 nationally. Today it ranks #14942, 12,088 places below that high. See the whole 1999 chart.
Where it comes from
From David to Davia
The story of Davia
English has produced several feminines of David and settled on none: Davina came from Scotland in the seventeenth century, Davida is a Latinate construction, and Davia and Dava are twentieth-century American. What separates them is entirely the ending, which is a matter of how formal a family wants the name to sound — -ina reads as Scottish, -ida as classical, -ia as Latin, and a bare -a as plain. Davia appears in the record from 1945 and peaked much later, in 1999.
Meaningscholars disagree
beloved
The meaning belongs to David, from the Hebrew dod — beloved. That derivation is the standard one and not entirely secure, since a minority reading treats the name as a title of some kind. The -ia ending is Latin and carries no meaning; it marks the name as a woman's and gives it a syllable.
How the name formed
- David
- Davia
Related forms: Davina · Davida
Pronouncing Davia
DAY-vee-uh
Three syllables, stress on the first. The -ia ending genuinely adds a syllable, which is the one real difference between this name and Dava.
Nicknames for Davia
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1945
- Most girls named
- 199947 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2854reached in 1999
- Change vs 2024
- −50.0%5 in 2025, from 10
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Davia in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Davina in Scots — related form
- Davida in Italian — related form
Davias among us
people named Davia are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 321,453 born in 2025 was named Davia
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Mee test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Davia's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Mee climbed just as high around 1983, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Mee's path sketches the road Davia is walking now.
Davia sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Davia beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Davia in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The Latin ending gives it a formality that the shorter feminines lack.
- Via works as a short form and is a real word in two languages.
- Five letters, three light syllables, and easy in any accent.
- The name behind it is among the best documented in the world.
- Davia, Dava and Davina all sit close by and will be written instead.
- It is easily confused with Daria and Dahlia in speech.
- There is no traditional feminine of David in English, so any version reads as constructed.
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Feminine · #14942 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Davias are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,200 people named Davia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Davia in 2025?
- Davia ranks #14942 among US girl names in 2025, with 5 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Davia?
- About 1 in every 321,453 US girls born in 2025 was named Davia — 5 in all.
- Will my child share the name Davia with classmates?
- Davia will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Davia
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