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Kavita

#14,051 in 2025Girls' name

Poem

Kavita has been given to 786 babies in the U.S. since 1968. In 2025 it ranked #14,051 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1983, with 33 recorded.

Babies named Kavita, 2025

1 in 553,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kavita: meaning, origin, and history

Poem

Sanskrit

What Kavita means

Kavita means “poem”, associated with kavitā.

Origin, language, and formation

Kavita is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 786 girls were recorded with the name Kavita between 1968 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 33 in 1983; its best national rank was #2,697 in 1983.

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 Kavita?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#14,051
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kavita 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kavita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kavitas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kavita was born before 1987 — so the typical Kavita is around 38 today.

Median birth year
1987
About 38 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
34.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
14.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
786
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 34.6% of all recorded uses (272).

Is Kavita 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
18.2%
Peak was 1983 (33)
Years since peak
42
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,697
1983

Spellings of Kavita

Kavita is not the most common spelling — Anita is, with 44.0% against Kavita's 0.16%.

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 Kavita is used

Across 1910–2025, Kavita was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 294,294 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4New Jersey1 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. Kavita has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kavita around the world

Where Kavita 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
    1996–2012
    #5,876
    in 2012
  • France
    1991–1991
    #3,292
    in 1991
  • Canada
    1991–1999
    #2,493
    in 1999
  • South Australia
    1986–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, 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. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Kavita by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#14,051
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#2,697
1983
Peak year
1983
33 that year
First recorded
1968
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
786
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Kavita

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

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Sibling names for Kavita

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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