Dalva
given name · Latin script
Meaning: estrela-d'alva, Venus; evening star, Venus
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dalvɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Dalva is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 3.1K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 1.4M
- MZMozambique≈1 in 8.6K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 124 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.1K (inferred from the name graph)
67,625 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
estrela-d'alva, Venus; evening star, Venus
Sources 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dalva counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #279 | 67,625 | 1 in 3.1K | 84K | Dalva | 124 |
| MZ Mozambique | #393 | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 8.6K | — | Dalva | 10 |
| AO Angola | #933 | ≈870 est. | ≈1 in 38K | 1 | Dalva | 12 |
| US United States | — | 236 | 1 in 1.4M | 224 | Dalva | 88 |
| PT Portugal | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 44K | listed | Dalva | 24 |
| PY Paraguay | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Dalva | 8 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 88 | 1 in 38K | 88 | Dalva | 10 |
67,625 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the portuguese-names-barbosa-1990 register; INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Dalva Damiana de Freitasb. 1927BRBrazilian singer, songwriter
- Dalva de Andradeb. 1935BRBrazilian singer
- Mary Dalva Proençab. 1935BRBrazilian diver
- Dalva Lazaronib. 1945BRBrazilian lawyer, writer, teacher, politician
- Dalva Maria Anastacio Rheniusb. 1953BRpolitician from Brazil
- Dalva Maria Carvalho Mendesb. 1956BRBrazilian military physician
- Dalva Figueiredob. 1961BRBrazilian politician
- Dalva Graciano Ribeirob. 1965BRBrazilian geobotanist, taxonomist
- Dalva Peresb. 1996AOAngolan handball player
- Dalva L. QueirozBRBrazilian entomologist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 28 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 84K | #531 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 83K | #190 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 68K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2020 | 68K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 67K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 67K | #452 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 67K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 66K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 62K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 53K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1960 | 34K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1950 | 20K | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Dalva mean, and where does it come from?
- estrela-d'alva, Venus; evening star, Venus Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- How do you pronounce Dalva?
- A machine transcription gives /dalvɐ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- Is Dalva a male or female name?
- Dalva is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Dalva have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 68 thousand people named Dalva, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dalva.
- Where is Dalva most common?
- Dalva is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.1 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Dalva?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 67,625 people named Dalva in 2022, about 1 in 3.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Dalva compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Dalva is the 279th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dalvaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Dalva” — the 279th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.