Taavi

Boys' name

Beloved, through Daavid

Taavi has been given to 219 babies in the U.S. since 2007. 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 2015, with 20 recorded.

Babies named Taavi, 2024

1 in 279,000

Taavi over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Taavi: meaning, origin, and history

Beloved, through Daavid

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Taavi means

Taavi belongs to the name family reached through Taavi → Daavid. Its meaning is “beloved”.

Origin, language, and formation

Taavi is used in Estonian and Finnish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Taavet and Daavid.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Taavi is pronounced /ˈtɑːʋi/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 219 boys were recorded with the name Taavi between 2007 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 20 in 2015; its best national rank was #4,864 in 2015.

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 Taavi?

Taavi 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 279,000; 12 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only: 1 in 144,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 193,089 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Taavi sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 193,089 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Taavi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Taavis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Taavi was born before 2017 — so the typical Taavi is around 8 today.

Median birth year: 2017; About 8 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 60.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 219; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 60.7% of all recorded uses (133).

Is Taavi 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 2015 (20)
Years since peak: 10; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 28.4% average annual change
Best rank ever: #4,864; 2015

Spellings of Taavi

Taavi is not the most common spelling — Travis is, with 90.8% against Taavi's 0.06%.

Travis90.8%308,571
Avi1.8%6,087
Tzvi1.2%4,218
Ravi1.1%3,605
Tai0.92%3,122
Xavi0.73%2,486
Tavis0.65%2,210
Davi0.61%2,058

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.

Taavi around the world

Where Taavi 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
2008–2008
#4,432
in 2008
Canada
2012–2012
#2,411
in 2012
South Australia
2009–2009
#473
in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Taavi by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #4,864; 2015
Peak year: 2015; 20 that year
First recorded: 2007
Last recorded: 2024
All-time count: 219
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Taavi

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

Taaj Taahir Taariq Lavi Tavi Navi Zavi Mavi Amavi Javi Zahavi Gavi Rhavi Kavi Havi Aavi Taaha Olavi Davi Taalib Xavi Taavon Ravi Taaron

Sibling names for Taavi

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

Aliah Jessa Coraline Milana Alannah Arden Averi Karleigh

For a brother

Caesar Crosby Kolten Immanuel Raylan Emmet Aarav Blaze

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