Chavy
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- KHAH-vee
- Origin
- Hebrew
- US rank, 2025
- #3,902 for girls
Chavy is a girls' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “life”. In 2025 it ranked 3,902nd for girls in the US (37 babies).
What does Chavy mean?
Hebrew: Yiddish pet form of Chava, Eve
“life”
A Yiddish pet form of Chava, the Hebrew name of Eve.
Is Chavy a girl's or a boy's name?
Chavy is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 37 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Chavy in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,902nd among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 37 about 1 in 43,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 29% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 37 girls in the US were named Chavy, making it the 3,902nd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,878th. Its busiest year was 2024, with 38 girls. It first appears in the records in 1982.
Half of all the girls named Chavy in the US since 1880 were born between 2008 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 48 girls in the US were given Chavy or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,626, up from #3,902 for this spelling alone.
- Chavy 37
- Chavi 11
Chavy in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 37 | #3,902 |
| 2024 | 38 | #3,892 |
| 2023 | 32 | #4,361 |
| 2022 | 34 | #4,200 |
| 2021 | 22 | #5,569 |
| 2020 | 26 | #4,878 |
| 2019 | 31 | #4,436 |
| 2018 | 26 | #5,003 |
| 2017 | 31 | #4,475 |
| 2016 | 25 | #5,283 |
| 2015 | 33 | #4,294 |
| 2014 | 23 | #5,623 |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,014 |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,338 |
| 2011 | 13 | #8,610 |
| 2010 | 25 | #5,412 |
| 2009 | 29 | #4,930 |
| 2008 | 20 | #6,556 |
| 2007 | 22 | #6,089 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,234 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,003 |
| 2004 | 9 | #10,684 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,500 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,274 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,095 |
| 2000 | 7 | #11,794 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,216 |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,420 |
| 1997 | 8 | #9,797 |
| 1996 | 6 | #11,801 |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,509 |
| 1994 | 6 | #11,771 |
| 1993 | 6 | #11,773 |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,139 |
| 1983 | 0 | – |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,235 |
Names like Chavy
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Navy, Navi, Saanvi, Arya, Prisha, Anya, Anvi, River, Avani, Aadhya, Dhriti, Armani
Other spellings of Chavy
Names related to Chavy
More Hebrew names
Noah, Isabella, Elijah, James, Jack, Mia, Ava, Jude, Ezra, Benjamin, Isaac, Jacob, Ethan, Daniel, Samuel, Elias
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Chavy: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/chavy, updated 20 October 2026.