Deva is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
Recently, the name Deva 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 Deva. That means that a girl named Deva 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 Deva.
If your name is Deva your parents may be very proud to let their daughter swim against the tide: The name Deva never ranked higher than position 1,952 in our statistics, and for many years not a single parent had the creative idea of naming their daughter Deva. But something caused mothers and fathers in 1915 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 Deva 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 Deva was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
As in the last century, Deva still proves to be exceptional. Even in 2022, the name was given very rarely - in fact, only 7 times in the entire U.S. So, a Deva from 2022 will need very good binoculars to spot the next namesake of the same age.
If you ever wanted to meet a girl or a woman named Deva, you have limited options – because girls with this beautiful name are currently living in California and Missouri. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if tehre are at least five people with that name living there – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few women and girls called Deva living in one state or another (if your name is Deva and you live outside of California and Missouri, we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know, so we can refine our statistics even further). Which means – if you put this number in relation to the population of the USA – only one in 392,445 girls and women would turn around if you called out the name Deva. So, if your name is Deva it is very likely that you won’t need a nickname in your peer group, because having the name Deva already makes you special.
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 Deva 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 Deva 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 Deva, you can simply say:
Dinosaur
Elephant
Violin
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Deva
Deva
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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.
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. Deva sounds like this: