Daviana
Feminine · “of David”
Daviana takes the most-used man's name in the Hebrew Bible and gives it the Latin ending that Spanish uses to make women's names out of men's: Julian to Juliana, Adrian to Adriana, David to Daviana. It is a modern name built out of two very old parts.
How old is the name Daviana?
Daviana first appears in US birth records in 1989 — 36 years ago. The typical Daviana alive today was born around 2007, making them about 18 years old. About 800 people named Daviana are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Daviana most popular?
Daviana peaked in 2002, reaching #3103 nationally. Today it ranks #6325, 3,222 places below that high. See the whole 2002 chart.
Where it comes from
From Dawid to Daviana
The story of Daviana
The suffix -iana comes from Latin adjectives formed on personal names, and it stayed productive in Spanish and Portuguese long after it stopped being productive in English. That is why the feminine coinages built on men's names in the last forty years of American naming are overwhelmingly Spanish-speaking: Daviana, Adaliana, Yariana, Briana. Daviana appears in United States records from the 1990s, concentrated among Dominican and Puerto Rican families, and reached its best year in 2002. The Hebrew half is three thousand years old, the Latin half is two thousand, and the join between them is about thirty.
Meaningscholars disagree
of David, from a Hebrew name usually read as beloved
David itself is the contested part. The traditional gloss is beloved, from a Hebrew root d-w-d, but a competing line takes it from a Mari-period word for chieftain or commander. The -iana ending is not contested at all: it is the Latin adjectival suffix, and it means belonging to, so the name reads as David's rather than as a meaning of its own.
How the name formed
- Dawid
- David
- Daviana
Related forms: Daviana · Daviane · Davida
Pronouncing Daviana
dah-vee-AH-nah
Four syllables with the stress on the third in Spanish. English speakers often say duh-vee-ANN-uh, flattening the last vowel; both are heard in the same families.
Nicknames for Daviana
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
- 1989
- Most girls named
- 200246 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3103reached in 2002
- Change vs 2024
- −25.0%18 in 2025, from 24
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.
Daviana in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Daviana in Spanish — same name
- Daviane in Portuguese — spelling variant
- Davida in Italian — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas.
Davianas among us
people named Daviana are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 89,293 born in 2025 was named Daviana
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Daviana
- #6325
- Daviana on the 2025 chart
- #930
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Daviana went to 18 girls in 2025, but Davianna is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 30, which makes it the 930th most-given girls’ name of the year — 5,395 places above the chart.
- Daviana18
- Davianna12
About 1 girl in 53,576 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 89,293 for Daviana itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Sheldon test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Daviana's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Sheldon climbed just as high around 1936, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Sheldon's path sketches the road Daviana is walking now.
Daviana 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
Daviana beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Daviana in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Reads correctly in both Spanish and English, which few coinages manage.
- Gives a daughter a clear link to a father, grandfather or godfather named David.
- Contains two ready short forms, Davi and Ana, that sound nothing alike.
- Davianna, Daviana and Daviannah all appear in United States records.
- The -iana ending places it firmly in a recent American-Latino naming wave rather than in older Spanish tradition.
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Frequently asked
- How many Davianas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Daviana are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Daviana?
- Daviana is the most-used spelling in US records — 18 of the 30 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Davianna.
- How popular is the name Daviana in 2025?
- Daviana ranks #6325 among US girl names in 2025, with 18 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Daviana?
- About 1 in every 89,293 US girls born in 2025 was named Daviana — 18 in all.
- Will my child share the name Daviana with classmates?
- Daviana will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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