girls:
2.6k births since 1971
#3375 (41st percentile)
boys:
16 births since 2010
#4570 (0th percentile)
overall:
2.6k births since 1971
#5224 (32nd percentile)
The name Divya is the #5,224 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,640 recorded births since 1971. This represents the 32.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 32.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,375 (40.9% percentile) for all time with 2,624 births since 1971. For boys, it ranks #4,570 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 16 births since 2010.
Divya first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1971 (1971 for girls and 2010 for boys). Birth data for Divya is available in 49 out of the 53 years between 1971 and 2023 (49 years for girls and 3 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Divya has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.4% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Divya reached its peak popularity in 2001, achieving the 12.0% percentile (ranked #790) with 57 births per million. The name was most common in 2001, with 57 births per million (ranked 12.0% percentile). Despite a low point in 2009, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for girls. Currently, Divya ranks #918 for girls (3.1% percentile) with 19 births per million, which is 34.1% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Divya reached its peak popularity in 2013, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #887) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2013, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2013.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Divya".
These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Divya.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Divya", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Divya.
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Divya. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 90.3% confident that Divya is pronounced as DIH-vyuh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DEE-vyuh, at 9.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
If none of the pronunciations above sound right to you, could you please check whether any of these related pronunciations should be applied to the name Divya? These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Divya. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Divya, please vote using the thumbs up button.
Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.
For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like D IH1 V Y AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
© 2025 NamePlay.org
Made with ❤️ by Aaron J Becker