Entry № 2576 · Filipino origin

Diwata Diwata — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ dee-WAH-tah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Filipino
Meaning
"Fairy, nature spirit"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Filipino)

A name that means "fairy, nature spirit".

Diwata is the Tagalog and Filipino word for a fairy or nature spirit — supernatural beings that inhabit trees, rivers, and mountains in pre-colonial Philippine mythology.

Diwata is rare but distinctive.

Fairy, nature spirit. The Filipino mythological being.

The name in its native script.

Diwata
Transliteration
Diwata
Pronunciation
/ diːˈwɑː.tə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Diwata stands.

Diwata does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Diwatas before her.

Real people
Diwata-1
First Philippine satellite.
2016
In fiction
Diwata
Common in Filipino fiction.

Names connected to Diwata.

The number behind Diwata.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Diwata reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.