Chavi
Chavi was given to 11 girls in 2025, #8,981 among girls’ names; 106 Americans have been recorded with it since 1977 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Chavi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Chavi mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Chavi is “a female given name from Sanskrit used in India.” Its etymology gives the sense “persona, image” (छवि).
Borrowed from Sanskrit छवि (chavi, “persona, image”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Chavi?
#8,981 among girls’ names, 2025
Chavi rose from #14,891 in 2015 to #8,981 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 3.4 to 6.8 per million.
11 babies in 2025, the peak
Chavi peaked in 2025, when 11 girls were given it, #8,981 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 8 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #8,981 | 6.8 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,333 | 4.9 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,409 | 4.4 |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,839 | 6.1 |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,707 | 6.2 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,717 | 4.2 |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,193 | 2.9 |
| 2015 | 6 | #14,891 | 3.4 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,360 | 3.9 |
| 2013 | 5 | #17,099 | 2.8 |
Every recorded year (15)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 9 | #11,454 | 5.1 |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,641 | 3.3 |
| 2008 | 5 | #18,103 | 2.6 |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,633 | 2.7 |
| 1977 | 5 | #9,868 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Chavi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Chavi has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 15 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Chavi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Chavi, and how old are they?
An estimated 105 Americans named Chavi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 4 and 16. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 233 people named Chavi (210 women and girls, 23 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 62 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.8 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 4,458 babies since 1880, Chavi is the third most given (2.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 171 babies (6.4%), again the third most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Chavi
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Chavi and names like it
- Compare Chavi and ChavaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sChavi peaked in 2025.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Chavi since 1910.
- Sanskrit namesWiktionary’s origin for Chavi: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Chavi.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Chavi alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with CMost given first.