Kavitha

Girls' name

Form of Kavita

Kavitha has been given to 115 babies in the U.S. since 1973. 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 1983, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Kavitha, 2000

1 in 630,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kavitha: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Kavita

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kavitha means

Kavitha is a form of Kavita.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Kavitha is used in Telugu, Tamil and Kannada.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Kavitha → Kavita. The family’s meaning is “poem”, recorded in English with the source elements kavitā.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Kavita.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 115 girls were recorded with the name Kavitha between 1973 and 2000. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1983; its best national rank was #6,980 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 Kavitha?

Kavitha had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2000, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2000: 1 in 630,000; 6 of 3,778,496 births
Among girls only: 1 in 303,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2000: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 436,510 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Kavitha 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 2000 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 436,510 children born in 2000 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kavitha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kavithas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kavitha was born before 1983 — so the typical Kavitha is around 42 today.

Median birth year: 1983; About 42 years old
Biggest decade: 1980s; 41.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 86.1%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 115; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1980s — 41.7% of all recorded uses (48).

Is Kavitha 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 1983 (9)
Years since peak: 42; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Steady; 10.9% average annual change
Best rank ever: #6,980; 1983

Spellings of Kavitha

Kavitha is not the most common spelling — Tabitha is, with 80.7% against Kavitha's 0.16%.

Tabitha80.7%59,200
Talitha4.8%3,521
Kanisha3.5%2,603
Keitha2.0%1,449
Kalisha1.8%1,298
Kamisha1.5%1,128
Kaisha1.4%1,030
Kavita1.1%786

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.

Kavitha around the world

Where Kavitha 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.

South Australia
1971–1971
#724
in 1971

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Kavitha 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: #6,980; 1983
Peak year: 1983; 9 that year
First recorded: 1973
Last recorded: 2000
All-time count: 115
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Kavitha

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

Kaveah Kaveri Ishitha Renatha Nishtha Yuktha Amrutha Kavina Kavonna Kavayah Srihitha Kimetha Kavani Deletha Euretha Lalitha Amritha Anvitha Kavita Lolitha Anwitha Doratha Samhitha Mahitha

Sibling names for Kavitha

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

Afton Tanesha Matthew Adriane Laquita Thomas Holli Venessa

For a brother

Jerrod Marques Jamaal Donnell Brenton Chauncey Leopoldo Whitney

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