Seeing as this is the name of a character from a British television series, it's no surprise that it gained a bit of a boost and peaked, at least in England & Wales, when the series was broadcast. Data from FreeBMD (w/ removal of duplicate records): 1975 - 9 births 1976 - 9 births 1977 - 50 births 1978 - 118 births 1979 - 106 births 1980 - 61 births 1981 - 47 births 1982 - 37 births 1983 - 23 births.
Davinia Taylor (born Davinia Murphy) is an English actress, socialite and interior designer, best known for playing Jude Cunningham in the soap opera Hollyoaks.
This name is also used in Spain.Based on statistics from INE involving living people in Spain, using only the statistics for those who were born inside the country, it was rare in the 1970s and most of the Davinias born in that decade were born in either Barcelona (Catalonia) or Las Palmas (Canary Islands). In the 1980s, it became more commonly used throughout Spain, less so by the 1990's onward.
Davinia sounds better then Davina to me. I prefer it over the other as well even though I normally hate the name David. There is just something with the pronunciation that sounds more classy than Davina.