Jhanvi
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- JAHN-vee
- Origin
- Sanskrit
- US rank, 2025
- #14,937 for girls
Jhanvi is a girls' name of Sanskrit origin, meaning “daughter of Jahnu (the Ganges)”. In 2025 it ranked 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).
What does Jhanvi mean?
Sanskrit: variant of Jahnavi, a name of the Ganges
“daughter of Jahnu (the Ganges)”
Jahnavi is a name of the river Ganges, from the legend of the sage Jahnu, who swallowed and released it.
Is Jhanvi a girl's or a boy's name?
Jhanvi is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Jhanvi in the UK?
No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2011, with 9 girls.
Jhanvi in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 4 | #4,864 |
| 2020 | 7 | #3,274 |
| 2019 | 4 | #4,904 |
| 2018 | 5 | #4,204 |
| 2017 | 4 | #4,967 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 1 | #7,629 |
| 2014 | 5 | #4,187 |
| 2013 | 1 | #7,690 |
| 2012 | 4 | #5,058 |
| 2011 | 9 | #2,794 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 1 | #7,377 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 4 | #4,357 |
How popular is Jhanvi in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #14,937among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5about 1 in 320,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 59% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the US were named Jhanvi, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,919th. Its busiest year was 2020, with 16 girls. It first appears in the records in 2001.
It has been given to fewer girls each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had fewer girls named Jhanvi than any year since 2007.
Half of all the girls named Jhanvi in the US since 1880 were born between 2009 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 49 girls in the US were given Jhanvi or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,594, up from #14,937 for this spelling alone.
Jhanvi in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #14,937 |
| 2024 | 6 | #13,472 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,192 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,050 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,287 |
| 2020 | 16 | #6,919 |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,712 |
| 2018 | 14 | #7,758 |
| 2017 | 10 | #9,939 |
| 2016 | 9 | #10,855 |
| 2015 | 9 | #10,861 |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,512 |
| 2013 | 9 | #10,995 |
| 2012 | 6 | #14,956 |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,339 |
| 2010 | 11 | #9,786 |
| 2009 | 13 | #8,884 |
| 2008 | 9 | #11,594 |
| 2007 | 5 | #17,630 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,415 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,003 |
| 2004 | 7 | #12,754 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 6 | #13,589 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,095 |
Names like Jhanvi
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Saanvi Dhriti Dhanvi Sanvi Yashvi Vaani Anvi Kashvi Aarvi Tanvi Prisha Krishvi
Other spellings of Jhanvi
Names related to Jhanvi
More Sanskrit names
Maya Bodhi Arya Lila Arjun Aarav Rohan Kali Aryan Opal Arjan Vihaan Aadhya Avyaan Ishaan Siya
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and 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, “Jhanvi: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/jhanvi, updated 20 October 2026.