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Savita

Girls' name

Sun, sun's light or energy

Savita has been given to 108 babies in the U.S. since 1968. 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 Savita, 2024

1 in 557,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Savita: meaning, origin, and history

Sun, sun's light or energy

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Savita means

Savita means “sun, sun's light or energy”, associated with savitā.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Sanskrit सविता (savitā, “sun, sun's light or energy”).

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

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Savita is used in English.

Savita comes through Sanskrit सविता.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 108 girls were recorded with the name Savita between 1968 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2000; its best national rank was #6,911 in 1970.

How common is Savita?

Savita had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 557,000
6 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 270,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,177 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Savita 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 2024 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 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Savita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Savitas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Savita was born before 1995 — so the typical Savita is around 30 today.

Median birth year
1995
About 30 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
25.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
41.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
108
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 25.0% of all recorded uses (27).

Is Savita 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
—
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
Steady
8.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,911
1970

Spellings of Savita

Savita is not the most common spelling — Anita is, with 54.4% against Savita's 0.03%.

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.

Savita around the world

Where Savita 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
    1998–1998
    #3,848
    in 1998
  • France
    1980–1997
    #4,349
    in 1997

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Savita 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
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Best rank ever
#6,911
1970
Peak year
2000
8 that year
First recorded
1968
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
108
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Savita

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

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Sibling names for Savita

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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