Girls' name · since 1947
Tava
460 babies named Tava in U.S. Social Security records since 1947, with the highest year being 2000. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #12,477 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 460
- born since 1947
- 2000s
- peak decade
Tava sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 460 recorded since 1947.
Tava has 460 recorded births among girls since 1947, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 2000s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1947 to 2022.
- #12,477 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 460 born since 1947
- 2000s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Tava ranks #12,477 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 460 born since 1947, peaking in the 2000s.
- #12,477 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 460
- born since 1947
- 2000s
- peak decade
Tava's 460 recorded births place it above 82.74% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Tava's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Tava's full recorded timeline at 1990, 48% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 52% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 1947, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2000 peak of 18 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Tava popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1947–2022
- Peak year (2000)
- 18
- Annual births at peak, across 76 years of records
Tava by decade
2000s is the heaviest window (113 births, 25% of the file).
2000s was Tava's strongest decade.
113 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 25% of all-time use.
Tava births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1940s 5
1940s
5 births
- 1950s 12
1950s
12 births
- 1960s 34
1960s
34 births
- 1970s
1970s
104 births
- 1980s
1980s
83 births
- 1990s 45
1990s
45 births
- 2000s
2000s
113 births
- 2010s
2010s
53 births
- 2020s 11
2020s
11 births
What this shows Peak: 2000s at 113 births (25% of all-time use).
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- Tava's decade-level peak was the 2000s (113 total births); usage has since declined to 11 in the 2020s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Tava: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2000)
Similar record span (~75 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1947–2022 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Tava draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.