Divine
#1,880 for girls in 2025, 104 births · #2,125 for boys in 2025, 68 births
Given to girls 57.5% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2020 · 114 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,487since 1986
Divine over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,880 | 104 | #2,125 | 68 |
| 2024 | #2,011 | 97 | #1,631 | 104 |
| 2023 | #1,780 | 114 | #1,701 | 99 |
| 2022 | #1,754 | 118 | #1,695 | 101 |
| 2021 | #1,885 | 105 | #1,931 | 78 |
| 2020 | #1,752 | 114 | #1,977 | 72 |
| 2019 | #2,140 | 87 | #1,954 | 75 |
| 2018 | #2,130 | 89 | #3,106 | 37 |
| 2017 | #1,964 | 101 | #2,450 | 52 |
| 2016 | #2,206 | 87 | #2,838 | 42 |
| 2015 | #2,351 | 78 | #3,085 | 37 |
| 2014 | #2,469 | 73 | #2,542 | 48 |
| 2013 | #2,236 | 83 | #3,060 | 36 |
| 2012 | #2,160 | 87 | #2,488 | 50 |
| 2011 | #2,238 | 84 | #3,114 | 36 |
| 2010 | #2,152 | 91 | #2,511 | 49 |
| 2009 | #2,425 | 79 | #2,753 | 44 |
| 2008 | #2,419 | 79 | #2,753 | 44 |
| 2007 | #2,328 | 82 | #2,564 | 48 |
| 2006 | #2,396 | 78 | #2,621 | 45 |
| 2005 | #2,180 | 84 | #2,528 | 44 |
| 2004 | #2,446 | 69 | #2,697 | 39 |
| 2003 | #2,301 | 73 | #2,674 | 37 |
| 2002 | #2,126 | 79 | #2,428 | 41 |
| 2001 | #2,013 | 84 | #2,151 | 48 |
| 2000 | #2,306 | 67 | #1,875 | 56 |
| 1999 | #2,182 | 69 | #2,023 | 47 |
| 1998 | #3,914 | 29 | #2,012 | 47 |
| 1997 | #3,897 | 28 | #2,347 | 35 |
| 1996 | #5,065 | 19 | #2,380 | 33 |
| 1995 | #5,958 | 15 | #2,626 | 28 |
| 1994 | #6,319 | 14 | #1,927 | 43 |
| 1993 | — | #3,141 | 21 | |
| 1992 | #13,317 | 5 | #2,834 | 24 |
| 1991 | #11,509 | 6 | #3,636 | 16 |
| 1990 | — | #3,058 | 20 | |
| 1989 | — | #3,205 | 18 | |
| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 | #3,915 | 12 |
| 1987 | #9,825 | 6 | #5,459 | 7 |
| 1986 | #10,912 | 5 | #4,457 | 9 |
| 1985 | — | #2,828 | 17 | |
| 1984 | — | #5,561 | 6 | |
| 1983 | — | #6,238 | 5 | |
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| 1981 | — | #4,961 | 7 | |
| 1980 | — | #6,250 | 5 | |
| 1979 | — | #6,056 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Divine! It came in at #10,912, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1988–1990, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Divine is popular in 2017
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Maryland#894 · 1 in 4,655
- New York#1,278 · 1 in 8,000
- Georgia#1,473 · 1 in 9,425
- Texas#1,514 · 1 in 10,658
- California#1,881 · 1 in 16,313
Best ever in a state: #577 in Maryland, 2021.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Maryland | #894 | 5 | 1 in 4,655 |
| New York | #1,278 | 11 | 1 in 8,000 |
| Georgia | #1,473 | 5 | 1 in 9,425 |
| Texas | #1,514 | 15 | 1 in 10,658 |
| California | #1,881 | 12 | 1 in 16,313 |
| Florida | #2,079 | 5 | 1 in 17,192 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Divine
- 131 spots since 2024 (#2,011 → #1,880)
- 128 spots since 2020 (#1,752 → #1,880)
- 471 spots since 2015 (#2,351 → #1,880)
- Debuted 1986
- Peaked 2020 at #1,752 (114 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 13,899 girls born in 2022 were named Divine (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 15,454 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #1,752 in 2020, was only 1 in 14,180 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 34.6% of all girls named Divine (860) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 2024, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 16 | #9,825 (1987) | #10,845 |
| 1990s | 185 | #2,182 (1999) | #6,520 |
| 2000s | 774 | #2,013 (2001) | #2,294 |
| 2010s | 860 | #1,964 (2017) | #2,205 |
| 2020s | 652 | #1,752 (2020) | #1,844 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Divine in 2017
Top girls' names in 2017
Top boys' names in 2017
More about 2017
girls
1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 17,094 of them was named Divine, which outranked 89.4% of the 18,448 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,954Rosaleigh102
- #1,954Santana102
- #1,954Shayna102
- #1,964Divine101
- #1,964Dasha101
- #1,964Harlem101
- #1,964Jesslyn101
- #1,976Adalynne100
- #1,976Annora100
- #1,976Dora100
Tied with 11 names at #1,964; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 263Julianne#919 → #1,182
- ↓ 243Milania#947 → #1,190
- ↓ 240Wendy#858 → #1,098
- ↓ 238Montserrat#808 → #1,046
- ↓ 224Nathaly#930 → #1,154
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,850,956 boys got a published name in 2017; 1 in 35,595 of them was named Divine, which outranked 82.8% of the 14,262 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,417Zacari53
- #2,417Zaki53
- #2,417Zyair53
- #2,450Divine52
- #2,450Alpha52
- #2,450Amaziah52
- #2,450Arius52
- #2,493Ajani51
- #2,493Ameen51
- #2,493Boris51
Tied with 42 names at #2,450; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.