Entry № 5327 · Sanskrit origin

Kavya Kavya — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KAHV-yah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Poetry, poem"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "poetry, poem".

Kavya (काव्य) is the Sanskrit word for "poetry" — particularly the classical form of Sanskrit ornate poetry that flourished from the 1st to 12th centuries CE. The root kavi means "poet" or "wise one."

Kavya entered the U.S. top 1000 in 2017 and has been rising.

Poetry, poem — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

काव्य
Transliteration
Kāvya
Pronunciation
/ ˈkɑːv.jə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Kavya stands.

Kavya does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Kavyas before her.

Real people
Kavya Maran
Indian businesswoman, IPL franchise owner.
born 1992
In fiction

Names connected to Kavya.

The number behind Kavya.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Kavya reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.