Divina
Feminine · “divine”
Divina is the Spanish and Italian feminine of divine, and the Latin behind it is a word about gods — divus, from the same root that gives Jupiter his first syllable and English its word for a day.
How old is the name Divina?
Divina first appears in US birth records in 1914 — 111 years ago. The typical Divina alive today was born around 2008, making them about 17 years old. About 1,400 people named Divina are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Divina most popular?
Divina peaked in 2024, reaching #2930 nationally. Today it ranks #3577, 647 places below that high. See the whole 2024 chart.
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Where it comes from
From divinus to Divina
The story of Divina
Divinus was an ordinary Latin adjective and Christian Latin kept it. Spanish, Italian and Portuguese have used Divina as a women's name in devotional contexts — Divina Providencia and Divina Pastora are Marian titles — and it is used in the Philippines in real numbers for the same reason. It reaches American records with Hispanic and Filipino families, and separately with English speakers who like the word.
Meaning
divine
From Latin divinus, belonging to a god, built on divus; the root is the same Indo-European one behind Zeus, Jupiter and the Latin dies, a day — the sky and its light.
How the name formed
- divinus
- Divina
Related forms: Divina · Divina · Divino
Pronouncing Divina
dee-VEE-nah
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. English speakers often say dih-VY-nah.
Nicknames for Divina
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
- 1914
- Most girls named
- 202256 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2930reached in 2024
- Change vs 2024
- −25.0%42 in 2025, from 56
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.
Divina in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Divina in Italian — same name
- Divina in Portuguese — same name
- Divino in Spanish — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Florida.
Divinas among us
people named Divina are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 38,268 born in 2025 was named Divina
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 Jadalynn test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Divina's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Jadalynn climbed just as high around 2007, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Jadalynn's path sketches the road Divina is walking now.
Divina 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
Where Divina is headed
Divina should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Divina beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Divina in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled meaning with a genuinely deep Indo-European root behind it.
- Vina is a complete short form in its own right.
- Every letter is sounded, so Spanish and Italian speakers read it correctly at once.
- A name meaning divine is a large claim and strangers will remark on it.
- The middle vowel is said differently in English and Spanish.
- The devotional weight is invisible outside Catholic Spanish-speaking families.
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Feminine · #3577 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Divinas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,400 people named Divina are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Divina in 2025?
- Divina ranks #3577 among US girl names in 2025, with 42 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Divina?
- About 1 in every 38,268 US girls born in 2025 was named Divina — 42 in all.
- Will my child share the name Divina with classmates?
- Divina will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Divina
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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