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Tavia

#8,303 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Tavia has been given to 2,490 babies in the U.S. since 1944. In 2025 it ranked #8,303 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1993, with 104 recorded.

Babies named Tavia, 2025

1 in 255,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tavia: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tavia means

Tavia is a given name.

The naming story behind Tavia

Wikidata records Tavia as a given name. The entity identifier is Q110816236, 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, 2,490 girls were recorded with the name Tavia between 1944 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 104 in 1993; its best national rank was #1,513 in 1993.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,914 in 2020 to #8,303 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,238 in 2015 to #8,303 in 2025.

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 Tavia?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 255,000
13 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 124,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#8,303
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
176,762 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tavia 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 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tavia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tavias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tavia was born before 1993 — so the typical Tavia is around 32 today.

Median birth year
1993
About 32 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
23.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
30.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,485
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 23.7% of all recorded uses (591).

Is Tavia 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
+3,745
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−389
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,065
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.76×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
12.5%
Peak was 1993 (104)
Years since peak
32
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,513
1993

Spellings of Tavia

Tavia is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 26.0% against Tavia's 0.11%.

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 Tavia is used

Across 1910–2025, Tavia was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 270,363 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Montana1 in 100,000
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4Illinois1 in —
  5. 5Michigan1 in —
  6. 6North Carolina1 in —
  7. 7New York1 in —
  8. 8Ohio1 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. Tavia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Tavia around the world

Where Tavia 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
    1997–2022
    #5,670
    in 2022
  • Canada
    1991–2020
    #2,936
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    1976–2004
    #700
    in 2004

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.

Notable people named Tavia

People whose public names include Tavia, 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.

Tavia by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#8,303
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 389
Best rank ever
#1,513
1993
Peak year
1993
104 that year
First recorded
1944
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,490
Count in 2025
13

Names similar to Tavia

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

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Names with a curve like Tavia

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

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Sibling names for Tavia

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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