Bhavya — #12636 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Bhavya

The Social Security Administration has registered 345 babies named Bhavya between 1995 and 2024, spanning 30 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Bhavya currently holds the #12636 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2008, when 30 babies received it in a single year. Bhavya is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 92 additional births since 2003.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Bhavya performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 162 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Bhavya shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 14 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New Jersey. In total, SSA state-level files list Bhavya in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Bhavya in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 345 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.