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Kavya

#2,393 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Kavya has been given to 2,152 babies in the U.S. since 1987. In 2025 it ranked #2,393 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2012, with 106 recorded.

Babies named Kavya, 2025

1 in 44,200

Kavya over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kavya: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kavya means

Kavya is a given name.

The naming story behind Kavya

Wikidata records Kavya as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q128127963, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,146 girls were recorded with the name Kavya between 1987 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 106 in 2012; its best national rank was #1,896 in 2012.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,512 in 2020 to #2,393 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,033 in 2015 to #2,393 in 2025.

In the United States, 6 boys were recorded with the name Kavya between 2010 and 2010. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2010; its best national rank was #11,484 in 2010.

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.

How common is Kavya?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 44,200
75 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 21,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,393
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
30,640 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kavya 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 30,640 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kavya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kavyas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kavya was born before 2013 — so the typical Kavya is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
45.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
91.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,146
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 45.1% of all recorded uses (968).

Is Kavya 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
+151
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+119
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−360
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.77×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
70.8%
Peak was 2012 (106)
Years since peak
13
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
9.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,896
2012

Spellings of Kavya

Kavya is not the most common spelling — Kayla is, with 20.7% against Kavya's 0.13%.

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 Kavya is used

Across 2016–2025, Kavya was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 5,882 girls, against 1 in 18,298 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in 100,000).

117 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 5,882
  2. 2Illinois1 in 11,111
  3. 3California1 in 12,500
  4. 4Washington1 in 16,667
  5. 5Texas1 in 20,000
  6. 6Massachusetts1 in 25,000
  7. 7New York1 in 25,000
  8. 8Maryland1 in 33,333

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.

Kavya around the world

Where Kavya 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
    2000–2025
    #1,892
    in 2025
  • France
    2010–2023
    #7,057
    in 2023
  • Canada
    2003–2024
    #1,542
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2009–2012
    #871
    in 2012

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.

Notable people named Kavya

People whose public names include Kavya, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Kavya by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,393
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 119
Best rank ever
#1,896
2012
Peak year
2012
106 that year
First recorded
1987
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,146
Count in 2025
75

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#11,484
2010
Peak year
2010
6 that year
First recorded
2010
Last recorded
2010
All-time count
6
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kavya

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

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Names with a curve like Kavya

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Kavya, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

SumayaAlyanaTayleeJainaKarmynZaydaMariajoseSkyleeKamdynAlyannaCaliyahAvigail

Sibling names for Kavya

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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