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Tavita

UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Form of David

Tavita has been given to 195 babies in the U.S. since 1982. 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 2013, with 10 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 83% boys, 17% girls all-time.

Babies named Tavita, 2023

1 in 552,000

Tavita over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Tavita over time

In 2023, Tavita went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19752023

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Tavita: meaning, origin, and history

Form of David

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tavita means

Tavita is a form of David.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Tavita is used in Samoan.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Tavita → David. The family’s meaning is “beloved”, recorded in English with the source elements dāwiḏ.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include David.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 161 boys were recorded with the name Tavita between 1982 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2013; its best national rank was #5,560 in 1982.

In the United States, 34 girls were recorded with the name Tavita between 1975 and 1996. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1980; its best national rank was #8,937 in 1975.

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 Tavita?

Tavita had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 552,000
6 of 3,314,783 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
382,940 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tavita 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 2023 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 382,940 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tavita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tavitas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tavita was born before 2007 — so the typical Tavita is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
39.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
80.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
161
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 39.1% of all recorded uses (63).

Is Tavita 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2013 (10)
Years since peak
12
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,560
1982

Spellings of Tavita

Tavita is not the most common spelling — Tavion is, with 23.8% against Tavita's 1.2%.

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 Tavita is used

Across 1910–2025, Tavita was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 3,486,540 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Tavita has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Tavita 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
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Best rank ever
#5,560
1982
Peak year
2013
10 that year
First recorded
1982
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
161
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#8,937
1975
Peak year
1980
7 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
1996
All-time count
34
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tavita

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

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Sibling names for Tavita

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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