Recorded 1976–2025 · United States
Divine was most popular in 2022, when 219 American babies were given the name — ranking #2,113 that year. In 2025 it ranked #2,440, with 172 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 4,328 people named Divine.
Divine first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1976, which makes it about 49 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 47 of the 50 years since.
The Social Security Administration has recorded 4,328 American births named Divine between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 4,278 are estimated to be alive today.
172 American babies were named Divine in 2025, ranking #2,440 that year.
Divine is rising. Across 2021–2025 it averaged 198 births a year, against 122 a year across 2011–2015 — a change of +61% over the decade.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Across the whole record Divine is a unisex name — 57.5% of the 4,328 Americans given it were girls and 42.5% were boys. It changed hands: since 2025 it has gone mainly to girls, having gone mainly to boys before that. In births since 2016 it is 58% girls and 42% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
Roughly 4,278 Americans named Divine are alive today — 99% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 14 years old, and half are between 6 and 23.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org