Given name & surname

Tavita

“the eighth-born child”

Tavita is a variant of Tavia. In Latin use, Tavia carries the interpretation “the eighth-born child.”

Meaning & origin

What it means

Tavita is a variant of Tavia. In Latin use, Tavia carries the interpretation “the eighth-born child.”

Explained through its name family

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1975. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Tavita through the years

Babies since 1880
195
161 boys · 34 girls
Most popular year
1996
11 babies
2025
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2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
Boys Girls
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Tavita in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1975–2025, per million births of each sex. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2023. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 10 in 2013. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 442 as a first name in 2020; 197 as a surname in 2020.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

Tavita’s family of names

Tavita has a related form in Tavia.

Walk Tavita’s family in the name graph

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Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Nicknames & forms 1

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Spellings & scripts 1

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

Similar names

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Sibling ideas

Names that share Tavita’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.

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