Tanvi
Tanvi was given to 36 girls in 2025, #4,058 among girls’ names; 2,298 Americans have been recorded with it since 1980 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,280 Americans named Tanvi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 10 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tanvi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Tanvi mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Tanvi is “a female given name from Sanskrit used in India.”
Borrowed from Sanskrit तन्वी (tanvī).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Tanvi?
#4,058 among girls’ names, 2025
Tanvi fell from #1,870 in 2015 to #4,058 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 61.6 to 22.4 per million.
140 babies in 2009, the peak
Tanvi peaked in 2009, when 140 girls were given it, #1,610 among girls’ names. The 36 births of 2025 are 26% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36 | #4,058 | 22.4 |
| 2024 | 32 | #4,461 | 19.8 |
| 2023 | 47 | #3,424 | 29.3 |
| 2022 | 48 | #3,359 | 29.3 |
| 2021 | 54 | #3,064 | 32.9 |
| 2020 | 46 | #3,392 | 28.5 |
| 2019 | 54 | #3,037 | 32.2 |
| 2018 | 85 | #2,206 | 50.0 |
| 2017 | 97 | #2,034 | 56.2 |
| 2016 | 103 | #1,953 | 58.1 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 110 | #1,870 | 61.6 |
| 2014 | 110 | #1,851 | 61.6 |
| 2013 | 109 | #1,863 | 62.1 |
| 2012 | 114 | #1,801 | 64.7 |
| 2011 | 98 | #2,016 | 55.7 |
| 2010 | 102 | #1,976 | 57.4 |
| 2009 | 140 | #1,610 | 76.2 |
| 2008 | 110 | #1,925 | 58.2 |
| 2007 | 124 | #1,750 | 64.5 |
| 2006 | 103 | #1,960 | 54.2 |
| 2005 | 94 | #2,010 | 50.9 |
| 2004 | 71 | #2,420 | 38.7 |
| 2003 | 72 | #2,341 | 39.4 |
| 2002 | 56 | #2,738 | 31.2 |
| 2001 | 40 | #3,410 | 22.2 |
| 2000 | 52 | #2,808 | 28.6 |
| 1999 | 38 | #3,365 | 21.4 |
| 1998 | 23 | #4,782 | 13.0 |
| 1997 | 24 | #4,494 | 13.8 |
| 1996 | 19 | #5,260 | 10.8 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,680 | 5.7 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,725 | 5.6 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,994 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,411 | 4.9 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,967 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,721 | 3.8 |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,636 | 3.4 |
| 1987 | 5 | #13,059 | 2.9 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,917 | 4.2 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,409 | 5.3 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,988 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tanvi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tanvi has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 41 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tanvi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tanvi, and how old are they?
2,280 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,298 Americans ever recorded as Tanvi. The median Tanvi alive today is 16 years old; half are between 10 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 2,855 people named Tanvi (2,846 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,030 born in the U.S. The Census count is 41% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 7 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 97 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,250 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 925 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Tanvi born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 8 | #2,609 | 0.8× |
Where Tanvi is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tanvi is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1980 it was given 3.3 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 girls’ 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 Tanvi with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Tanvi
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 Tanvi and names like it
- Compare Tanvi and MadalynnBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sTanvi peaked in 2009.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tanvi since 1910.
- Sanskrit namesWiktionary’s origin for Tanvi: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Tanvi.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Tanvi alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.