Tavy

Girls' name

The eighth, through Octavia

Tavy has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 1989. 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 1989, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Tavy, 1989

1 in 768,000

Tavy over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tavy: meaning, origin, and history

The eighth, through Octavia

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tavy means

Tavy belongs to the name family reached through Tavy → Octavia. Its meaning is “the eighth”.

Origin, language, and formation

Tavy is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Octavia.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Tavy between 1989 and 1989. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1989; its best national rank was #14,341 in 1989.

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 Tavy?

Tavy had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1989, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1989: 1 in 768,000; 5 of 3,842,268 births
Among girls only: 1 in 368,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1989: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 532,653 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Tavy 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 1989 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 532,653 children born in 1989 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tavy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tavys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tavy was born before 1989 — so the typical Tavy is around 36 today.

Median birth year: 1989; About 36 years old
Biggest decade: 1980s; 100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 5; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1980s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Tavy 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 1989 (5)
Years since peak: 36; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #14,341; 1989

Spellings of Tavy

Tavy is not the most common spelling — Mary is, with 60.9% against Tavy's <0.01%.

Mary60.9%4,141,481
Amy10.3%701,631
Ava5.1%344,097
Tammy4.9%332,015
Tracy3.7%251,393
Tara2.6%175,812
Stacy2.4%164,011
Tanya1.7%116,855

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.

Tavy 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: —
Best rank ever: #14,341; 1989
Peak year: 1989; 5 that year
First recorded: 1989
Last recorded: 1989
All-time count: 5
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Tavy

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

Tavey Tavis Gavy Mavy Tavish Tavera Tavifa Tavyn Taven Leavy Keavy Tavona Tavette Tavonne Tavanna Tavonda Tavin Tavi Tavery Tavaris Tavonya Tavleen Tavion Tavaya

Sibling names for Tavy

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

Stephani Ashli Felisha Jalisa Britany Chantelle Leandra Lissette

For a brother

Elizabeth Kelsey Garrick Lauren Hakeem Demario Jerrell Arron

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