Is it necessary to have a default value of boolean in java?

No, you absolutely should not choose variable names to conform to your language's default value of boolean in java.

The point of variable names is to make reading code easier for the maintainer. Default values are a detail of the language specification (or sometimes even of the implementation) and may or may not match with your intent in using a flag variable. Therefore it's much, much better to choose the variable name to be as clear as possible for the reader, and use explicit initialization if this is necessary to get the desired initial value.

(By the way, IMO there is no reason to use initialization if the well-defined default value does match your program semantics. Expressions like private boolean active = false; look uncomfortably as if the author didn't know about the language specification and make me wonder what else they don't know.)