Kavya
#2,387 for girls in 2025, 75 births · Last seen for boys in 2010 at #10,766
Given to girls 99.7% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2012 · 106 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,146since 1987
Kavya over time
Rank among girls' names. Kavya has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,387 | 75 | — | |
| 2024 | #2,533 | 70 | — | |
| 2023 | #2,415 | 74 | — | |
| 2022 | #2,604 | 67 | — | |
| 2021 | #2,510 | 70 | — | |
| 2020 | #2,500 | 69 | — | |
| 2019 | #2,043 | 93 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,937 | 102 | — | |
| 2017 | #2,053 | 95 | — | |
| 2016 | #2,033 | 97 | — | |
| 2015 | #2,025 | 97 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,956 | 102 | — | |
| 2013 | #2,083 | 92 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,886 | 106 | — | |
| 2011 | #2,173 | 87 | — | |
| 2010 | #2,043 | 97 | #10,766 | 6 |
| 2009 | #2,270 | 86 | — | |
| 2008 | #2,557 | 73 | — | |
| 2007 | #2,394 | 79 | — | |
| 2006 | #2,602 | 69 | — | |
| 2005 | #2,670 | 63 | — | |
| 2004 | #3,333 | 45 | — | |
| 2003 | #3,232 | 45 | — | |
| 2002 | #2,642 | 58 | — | |
| 2001 | #2,881 | 50 | — | |
| 2000 | #3,020 | 46 | — | |
| 1999 | #3,374 | 37 | — | |
| 1998 | #4,366 | 25 | — | |
| 1997 | #5,868 | 16 | — | |
| 1996 | #5,065 | 19 | — | |
| 1995 | #8,766 | 9 | — | |
| 1994 | #9,586 | 8 | — | |
| 1993 | #13,442 | 5 | — | |
| 1992 | #11,738 | 6 | — | |
| 1991 | #9,336 | 8 | — | |
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| 1987 | #9,825 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kavya! It came in at #9,825, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1988–1990, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
See more about Kavya
- 146 spots since 2024 (#2,533 → #2,387)
- 113 spots since 2020 (#2,500 → #2,387)
- 362 spots since 2015 (#2,025 → #2,387)
- Debuted 1987
- Peaked 2012 at #1,886 (106 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 16,614 girls born in 2012 were named Kavya (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 21,430 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 45.1% of all girls named Kavya (968) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 6 | #9,825 (1987) | #9,825 |
| 1990s | 133 | #3,374 (1999) | #7,949 |
| 2000s | 614 | #2,270 (2009) | #2,760 |
| 2010s | 968 | #1,886 (2012) | #2,023 |
| 2020s | 425 | #2,387 (2025) | #2,492 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Kavya in 2012
Top girls' names in 2012
More about 2012
girls
1,761,053 girls got a published name in 2012; 1 in 16,614 of them was named Kavya, which outranked 90.3% of the 19,534 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,875Tatyana107
- #1,875Vianey107
- #1,875Viktoria107
- #1,886Kavya106
- #1,886Angelie106
- #1,886Ayesha106
- #1,886Brooklynne106
- #1,904Ameerah105
- #1,904Avalon105
- #1,904Cienna105
Tied with 17 names at #1,886; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.