Kavya — #2540 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Kavya

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,071 babies named Kavya between 1987 and 2024, spanning 38 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kavya currently holds the #2540 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2012, when 106 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kavya performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 968 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Kavya shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 345 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New Jersey and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Kavya in 14 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kavya 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 2,071 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.