Dava is a female first name.
Recently, the name Dava has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one girl in 100,000 has been named Dava. That means that a girl named Dava is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name her whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Dava.
If your name is Dava your parents may be very proud to let their daughter swim against the tide: The name Dava never ranked higher than position 1,327 in our statistics, and for many years not a single parent had the creative idea of naming their daughter Dava. But something caused mothers and fathers in 1954 to choose the name more often than usual - only compared to the rest of the time, of course. You probably still won't find many children named Dava because that was several decades ago - unless, of course, you have some very creative parents in the neighborhood.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Dava was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
As in the last century, Dava still proves to be very exceptional. In 2022, for example, it was not given once in the entire U.S. - or, to be more precise, it was given at most four times, because names given less than five times in one year are not included in the official statistics. So if you know someone named Dava who was born in 2022, please let us know - we would be very interested in hearing about it so that we can provide you with even more accurate statistics.
It is not so easy to find a woman or girl named Dava in the USA. Although the name is not sooooo rare overall, it is only at home in a few selected regions of the USA. In the entire United States there are currently a total of 85 women and girls named Dava, but there are vast areas of the country where not a single person with this name can be found. In fact, the 85 women and girls named Dava live in no more than 6 different states, including for example California, Illinois, Missouri, Ohio and Tennessee. In all other 43 states, there are no – or, to be precise, less than a handful – women called Dava. (To explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five women with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Dava lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Dava and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics.). The state with the most girls and women named Dava relative to its female population is Tennessee. And even there, only one in 290,186 women and girls would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Dava.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter D is quite common as an initial letter for girls' names. To be precise, 5.6% of all girls' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M.
With four letters, the name Dava is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 5.6% of all girls' names start with D, this initial letter occurs much more often than all 26 letters on average. And maybe interesting to know: of all the names that begin with a D, Dorothy is the most common.
If your name is Dava and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Dava, you can simply say:
Dinosaur
Apple
Violin
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Dava
Dava
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
D
A
V
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
D
A
V
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Dava sounds like this:
