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Flavia

#8,025 in 2025Girls' name

Possibly yellow

Flavia has been given to 1,843 babies in the U.S. since 1881. In 2025 it ranked #8,025 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1921, with 39 recorded.

Babies named Flavia, 2025

1 in 255,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Flavia: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly yellow

Latin

What Flavia means

Flavia may mean “yellow”, associated with flavus.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Latin Flavia, feminine form of the gens name Flavius, probably from flavus (“yellow”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Flavia (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Flavia is used in English, Italian, Romanian and Spanish. Its origins include Latin.

Flavia comes through Latin Flavia.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Flavius.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Flavia is pronounced /ˈfleɪ.vi.ə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,843 girls were recorded with the name Flavia between 1881 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 39 in 1921; its best national rank was #699 in 1884.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,727 in 2020 to #8,025 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #10,374 in 2015 to #8,025 in 2025.

How common is Flavia?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 255,000
13 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 124,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#8,025
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
176,762 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Flavia 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 2025 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 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Flavia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Flavias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Flavia was born before 1955 — so the typical Flavia is around 70 today.

Median birth year
1955
About 70 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
14.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
20.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
986
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Choose a decade

1920s — 14.0% of all recorded uses (258).

Is Flavia 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
+1,761
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,298
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,349
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.30×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
33.3%
Peak was 1921 (39)
Years since peak
104
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#699
1884

Spellings of Flavia

Flavia is not the most common spelling — Olivia is, with 82.8% against Flavia's 0.27%.

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.

Where Flavia is used

Across 1910–2025, Flavia was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 264,173 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 100,000
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 100,000
  3. 3California1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —
  5. 5Pennsylvania1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Flavia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Flavia around the world

Where Flavia 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
    1996–2025
    #2,788
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2022–2024
    #736
    in 2024
  • France
    1908–2025
    #1,680
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1993–2020
    #2,626
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    1957–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Flavia by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#8,025
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,298
Best rank ever
#699
1884
Peak year
1921
39 that year
First recorded
1881
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,843
Count in 2025
13

Names similar to Flavia

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

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Sibling names for Flavia

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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