Bhavna

Girls' name

Feeling, emotion

Bhavna has been given to 37 babies in the U.S. since 1981. 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 2000, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Bhavna, 2009

1 in 637,000

Bhavna over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Bhavna: meaning, origin, and history

Feeling, emotion

Sanskrit

What Bhavna means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Bhavna is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 37 girls were recorded with the name Bhavna between 1981 and 2009. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2000; its best national rank was #8,867 in 1987.

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 Bhavna?

Bhavna had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2009, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2009: 1 in 637,000; 6 of 3,820,315 births
Among girls only: 1 in 306,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2009: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 441,341 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Bhavna 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 2009 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 441,341 children born in 2009 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bhavna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Bhavnas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Bhavna was born before 2000 — so the typical Bhavna is around 25 today.

Median birth year: 2000; About 25 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 51.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 86.5%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 37; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 51.4% of all recorded uses (19).

Is Bhavna 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2000 (8)
Years since peak: 25; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #8,867; 1987

Spellings of Bhavna

Bhavna is not the most common spelling — Shawna is, with 19.1% against Bhavna's 0.02%.

Shawna19.1%45,531
Hanna17.6%42,005
Shana12.4%29,635
Shanna11.8%28,284
Shauna11.8%28,071
Shayna6.8%16,267
Chana5.8%13,921
Hana5.4%13,007

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.

Bhavna around the world

Where Bhavna 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
1996–2004
#4,598
in 2004

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

Bhavna 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: —
Best rank ever: #8,867; 1987
Peak year: 2000; 8 that year
First recorded: 1981
Last recorded: 2009
All-time count: 37
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Bhavna

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

Bhakti Bhavya Bhavini Bhavani Revna Shavna Bhargavi Bhavana Bhavika Bhavi Devna Bhavishya

Sibling names for Bhavna

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

For a sister

Madisen Nada Sydnie Sydni Savana Jackeline Gabriel Halie

For a brother

Donavon Kevon Keshawn Syed Koby Shamar Johnson Lars

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