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Bhavana

Girls' name

Feeling, emotion

Bhavana has been given to 109 babies in the U.S. since 1995. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2001, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Bhavana, 2010

1 in 370,000

Bhavana over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Bhavana: meaning, origin, and history

Feeling, emotion

Sanskrit

What Bhavana means

Bhavana means “feeling, emotion”, associated with bhāvanā.

Origin, language, and formation

Bhavana is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 109 girls were recorded with the name Bhavana between 1995 and 2010. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2001; its best national rank was #8,848 in 2001.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Bhavana?

Bhavana had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2010, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2010
1 in 370,000
10 of 3,695,928 births
Among girls only
1 in 178,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2010
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
256,183 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Bhavana sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2010 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 256,183 children born in 2010 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bhavana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Bhavanas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Bhavana was born before 2003 — so the typical Bhavana is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
70.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
109
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 70.6% of all recorded uses (77).

Is Bhavana rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2001 (11)
Years since peak
24
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,848
2001

Spellings of Bhavana

Bhavana is not the most common spelling — Savana is, with 48.0% against Bhavana's 0.96%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Bhavana around the world

Where Bhavana ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2002–2002
    #4,137
    in 2002

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Bhavana by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#8,848
2001
Peak year
2001
11 that year
First recorded
1995
Last recorded
2010
All-time count
109
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Bhavana

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Bhavana

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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