Davina

name

The verdict

“Davina” is uncommon French (frequency #73,885 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#73,885
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom féminin.

Corpus desk

Index FR-davina · Davina · French

Davina · rank #73,885 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #73,885
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH davet

Nearest frequency peer: davet (-1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Rangs de longue queue près de « Davina »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Davina » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Davina
PropertyValue
HeadwordDavina
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters6
Frequency rank#73,885
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Davina » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).Davinatombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « davet » (#73,884), « Damiette » (#73,882), « deltaplane » (#73,888). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « Davina » est au #73,885. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Davina is uncommon French at frequency #73,885 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prénom féminin.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Davina, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Davina, spelled D-A-V-I-N-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    Prénom féminin.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how Davina appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. En effet, Breizh Info affirme que Gabriel Attal est le cousin de Véronique de Villèle, du duo Véronique et Davina.

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Davina"?
"Davina" is spelled D-A-V-I-N-A.
What does "Davina" mean?
As a proper noun, "Davina" means: Prénom féminin.
What language does "Davina" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Davina", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list