Kaavya
Kaavya was given to 13 girls in 2025, #8,084 among girls’ names; 484 Americans have been recorded with it since 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kaavya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kaavya?
#8,084 among girls’ names, 2025
Kaavya fell from #5,561 in 2015 to #8,084 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 13.4 to 8.1 per million.
40 babies in 2006, the peak
Kaavya peaked in 2006, when 40 girls were given it, #3,821 among girls’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 33% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #8,084 | 8.1 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,676 | 7.4 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,250 | 8.1 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,253 | 7.9 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,706 | 7.3 |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,169 | 8.0 |
| 2019 | 30 | #4,599 | 17.9 |
| 2018 | 27 | #4,932 | 15.9 |
| 2017 | 20 | #6,158 | 11.6 |
| 2016 | 30 | #4,674 | 16.9 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 24 | #5,561 | 13.4 |
| 2014 | 22 | #5,883 | 12.3 |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,197 | 9.7 |
| 2012 | 25 | #5,468 | 14.2 |
| 2011 | 20 | #6,432 | 11.4 |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,347 | 9.6 |
| 2009 | 25 | #5,616 | 13.6 |
| 2008 | 24 | #5,847 | 12.7 |
| 2007 | 31 | #4,739 | 16.1 |
| 2006 | 40 | #3,821 | 21.0 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,567 | 7.0 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,126 | 4.4 |
| 2003 | 10 | #10,001 | 5.5 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,838 | 3.9 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,358 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,947 | 3.9 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,434 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kaavya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kaavya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 27 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kaavya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kaavya, and how old are they?
An estimated 480 Americans named Kaavya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 8 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 482 people named Kaavya (470 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 408 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% above 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).
How common is the spelling Kaavya?
Kaavya is a less common spelling of Kavya: SSA has recorded 484 Kaavya and 2,152 Kavya since 1880.
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,636 babies since 1880, Kaavya is the second most given (18% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 88 babies (15%), again the second 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 Kaavya
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 Kaavya and names like it
- Compare Kaavya and KavyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKaavya peaked in 2006.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kaavya since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Kaavya.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kaavya alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.