Meaning not yet researched.
Kavya: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 75 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,896 in 2012.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,896 in 2012; #2,393 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kavya in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,393 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2012, at #1,896.
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Kavya: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 75 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,896 in 2012 · most girls in one year: 106 (2012).
In 2025, 75 US girls were named Kavya, making it the 2,393rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 151 places from #2,544 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 70 girls named Kavya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,896, reached in 2012. That year also had the most girls given the name: 106. For comparison, it was #2,033 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kavya in 36 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1987 with 6 babies. In all, 2,152 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 974 babies named Kavya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 812 US girls were named Kavya; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 102. In 2025 that was about 1 in 21,430 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kavya ranked highest in Maryland in 2025, at #689 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Kavi, Kaavya and Kaveh are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kavi (968), Kaavya (484), Kaveh (421), Kaveah (113), Kavia (48), Kaavia (41), Kaviya (20), Kavy (5), Kaviyah (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Kavya in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maryland | 7 | #689 | — |
| California | 18 | #1,339 | #1,364 |
| Texas | 12 | #1,861 | #1,991 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 75 | #2,393 | — | — |
| 2024 | 70 | #2,544 | — | — |
| 2023 | 74 | #2,432 | — | — |
| 2022 | 67 | #2,616 | — | — |
| 2021 | 70 | #2,523 | — | — |
| 2020 | 69 | #2,512 | — | — |
| 2019 | 93 | #2,051 | — | — |
| 2018 | 102 | #1,946 | — | — |
| 2017 | 95 | #2,062 | — | — |
| 2016 | 97 | #2,045 | — | — |
| 2015 | 97 | #2,033 | — | — |
| 2014 | 102 | #1,964 | — | — |
| 2013 | 92 | #2,085 | — | — |
| 2012 | 106 | #1,896 | — | — |
| 2011 | 87 | #2,184 | — | — |
| 2010 | 97 | #2,051 | 6 | #11,491 |
| 2009 | 86 | #2,278 | — | — |
| 2008 | 73 | #2,568 | — | — |
| 2007 | 79 | #2,412 | — | — |
| 2006 | 69 | #2,616 | — | — |
| 2005 | 63 | #2,690 | — | — |
| 2004 | 45 | #3,363 | — | — |
| 2003 | 45 | #3,265 | — | — |
| 2002 | 58 | #2,656 | — | — |
| 2001 | 50 | #2,896 | — | — |
| 2000 | 46 | #3,046 | — | — |
| 1999 | 37 | #3,402 | — | — |
| 1998 | 25 | #4,431 | — | — |
| 1997 | 16 | #6,021 | — | — |
| 1996 | 19 | #5,172 | — | — |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,121 | — | — |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,013 | — | — |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,556 | — | — |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,498 | — | — |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,751 | — | — |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,491 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).