Given name
Davita
“the beloved one”
Davita is a variant of Davina. In Scottish use, Davina carries the interpretation “the beloved one.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Davita is a variant of Davina. In Scottish use, Davina carries the interpretation “the beloved one.”
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1954. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Davita through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 709
- 0 boys · 709 girls
- Most popular year
- 1985
- 33 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 8 in 2010. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 33 in 1985. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 659 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Davita’s family of names
Davita has a related form in Davina. In Dutch usage, Davita has a conventional equivalent in the German form Davida.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Davita
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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