Diva
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Any female celebrity, usually a well known singer or actress
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 31 countries · latest register: CNE, 2026
/dibɐ/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated · uncertain
Diva is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 6.3K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 7.1K
- PAPanama≈1 in 13K
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)
- Record sources
- 109 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.4K (inferred from the name graph)
29,802 people, 2022
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Cape Verde, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Any female celebrity, usually a well known singer or actress.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Diva 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 | #549 | 29,802 | 1 in 7.1K | 40K | Diva | 109 |
| IN India | — | ≈5,000 est. | ≈1 in 290K | 14 | — | 10 |
| AO Angola | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Diva | 10 |
| US United States | — | 1,026 | 1 in 324K | 1K | Diva | 85 |
| PT Portugal | — | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 18K | listed | Diva | 40 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 534 | 1 in 6.3K | 534 | — | — |
| PA Panama | — | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 1 | — | — |
| CV Cape Verde | #250 | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | 1 | Diva | 7 |
29,802 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; INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); the pt-irn-lista-nomes register; CNE — Listas concorrentes (Eleicoes Legislativas 2026); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Diva is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Portuguese, feminine singular of divo
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Krsna (N)
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In English, Latin; a goddess
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Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Diva Grabovčevab. 1660BAcharacter from oral tradition of Bosnia and Herzegovina Roman Catholics
- Diva Diniz Corrêab. 1918BRBrazilian marine zoologist
- Diva Pachecob. 1940BRBrazilian actress
- Diva Hadamira Gastélumb. 1961MXMexican politician
- Diva Zappab. 1979USAmerican artist and actress
- Diva Tarkasb. 1987IDIndonesian footballer
- Diva Montelabab. 1991PHFilipino actress
- Diva O'Brancob. 1995PTPortuguese actress
- Diva Sicardactress
- Diva Tyleractress
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)59 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 31 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 40K | #905 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 30K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 30K | #827 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1K | #12,211 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 534 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 525 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 204 | #827 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 47 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 12 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 11 | #12,211 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 7 | — |
| UY Uruguay | Montevideo Open Data — Nombres por año y sexo (1940–2012) | 1987 | 3 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Diva mean, and where does it come from?
- Any female celebrity, usually a well known singer or actress. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Diva?
- It depends on the language: in Portuguese /dibɐ/; in Spanish /diba/; in Indonesian /dˈiva/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Diva have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 30 thousand people named Diva, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled diva.
- Is Diva a male or female name?
- Diva is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Brazil (IBGE), United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Uruguay (INE Uruguay).
- How common is the name Diva?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 29,802 people named Diva in 2022, about 1 in 7.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Diva compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Diva is the 549th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Diva?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/divaThe 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, “Diva” — the 549th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.