Kavi
Kavi was given to 63 boys in 2025, #2,244 among boys’ names; 968 Americans have been recorded with it since 1984 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kavi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kavi?
#2,244 among boys’ names, 2025
Kavi rose from #3,829 in 2015 to #2,244 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 14.6 to 36.9 per million.
72 babies in 2024, the peak
Kavi peaked in 2024, when 72 babies were given it (66 boys, #2,201 among boys’ names). The 69 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 96% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 63 | #2,244 | 36.9 |
| 2024 | 66 | #2,201 | 38.3 |
| 2023 | 47 | #2,756 | 27.5 |
| 2022 | 46 | #2,811 | 26.3 |
| 2021 | 41 | #3,001 | 23.4 |
| 2020 | 27 | #3,866 | 15.6 |
| 2019 | 33 | #3,457 | 18.4 |
| 2018 | 41 | #2,916 | 22.6 |
| 2017 | 31 | #3,547 | 16.7 |
| 2016 | 20 | #4,864 | 10.5 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 28 | #3,829 | 14.6 |
| 2014 | 39 | #2,952 | 20.3 |
| 2013 | 34 | #3,233 | 18.0 |
| 2012 | 26 | #3,950 | 13.7 |
| 2011 | 36 | #3,138 | 19.0 |
| 2010 | 36 | #3,152 | 18.8 |
| 2009 | 34 | #3,296 | 17.1 |
| 2008 | 30 | #3,602 | 14.7 |
| 2007 | 25 | #4,069 | 12.0 |
| 2006 | 20 | #4,600 | 9.7 |
| 2005 | 24 | #3,874 | 12.0 |
| 2004 | 24 | #3,802 | 12.1 |
| 2003 | 20 | #4,195 | 10.1 |
| 2002 | 23 | #3,722 | 11.8 |
| 2001 | 19 | #4,211 | 9.8 |
| 2000 | 13 | #5,440 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 11 | #5,852 | 5.7 |
| 1998 | 8 | #7,210 | 4.2 |
| 1997 | 13 | #4,806 | 6.9 |
| 1996 | 9 | #6,257 | 4.8 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,388 | 3.7 |
| 1992 | 5 | #9,116 | 2.5 |
| 1989 | 5 | #8,566 | 2.5 |
| 1988 | 5 | #7,905 | 2.6 |
| 1987 | 7 | #5,784 | 3.7 |
| 1986 | 7 | #5,647 | 3.8 |
| 1984 | 6 | #5,977 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kavi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 968 Americans recorded as Kavi, 4% are girls and 96% boys. In 2025 it went to 6 girls and 63 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kavi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kavi, and how old are they?
An estimated 956 Americans named Kavi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 5 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 846 people named Kavi (115 women and girls, 731 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 646 born in the U.S. The Census count is 31% 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).
Where are babies named Kavi born?
The states with the most babies named Kavi are California, New Jersey and New York, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 15 | #1,275 | 1.4× |
| New Jersey | 6 | #981 | 0.4× |
| New York | 5 | #1,902 | 0.7× |
Where Kavi is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kavi is most over-represented in California: since 1984 it was given 1.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Kavi with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,389 babies since 1880, Kavi is the most given (70% of them). In 2025 it was given to 69 of their 82 babies (84%), again the 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 Kavi
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 Kavi and names like it
- Compare Kavi and KavehBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sKavi peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kavi since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Kavi.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kavi alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.