Given name
Kavita
“poem”
Kavita is a feminine given name from Sanskrit, meaning “poem.”
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1968. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Kavita through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 786
- 0 boys · 786 girls
- Most popular year
- 1983
- 33 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #14,055 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 14,055 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 33 in 1983. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 3,281 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Kavita’s family of names
Kavita has a related form in Kavi. In English usage, Kavita has a conventional equivalent in the Hindi form कविता. In Telugu usage, Kavita is a Roman-alphabet rendering of కవిత.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Kavita has relatives in 3 languages. Lines run from its Sanskrit roots to each of them.
3 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Kavita
- Kavita KrishnamurthyIndian singerborn 1958
- Kavita KaushikIndian actressborn 1981
- Kavita KrishnanIndian politicianborn 1973
- Kavita SethIndian singerborn 1970
- Kavita TungarIndian distance runnerborn 1985
- Kavita RamdasIndian/American activistborn 1962
- Kavita BarjatyaIndian film producerborn 1977
- Kavita LorenzGerman ice dancerborn 1995
- Kavita SinghIndian art historian1964–2023
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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