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Kaashvi

Gender
Girl
Say it
KAASH-vee
Origin
Sanskrit
UK rank, 2025
#3,409 for girls
US rank, 2025
#5,916 for girls

Kaashvi is a girls' name of Sanskrit origin, meaning “shining, luminous”. In 2025 it ranked 3,409th for girls in the UK (7 babies) and 5,916th for girls in the US (20 babies).

What does Kaashvi mean?

Sanskrit: spelling of Kashvi; modern Indian name

“shining, luminous”

Usually derived from the Sanskrit root kas, 'to shine', the same root traditionally linked with Kashi, an ancient name of Varanasi.

Meaning borrowed from Kashvi.

Is Kaashvi a girl's or a boy's name?

Kaashvi is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the UK and 20 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Kaashvi in the UK?

Rank in 2025
#3,409among girls
Babies in 2025
7about 1 in 40,000 girls
Five-year trend
Newly popularnew in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 7 girls in the UK were named Kaashvi, making it the 3,409th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2023, with 9 girls.

In 2025, 29 girls in the UK were given Kaashvi or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,058, up from #3,409 for this spelling alone.

Among girls in 2025, it was 3,332nd in England and Wales.

2013Busiest: 9 in 20232025
Kaashvi in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20257#3,409
20249#2,832
20239#2,841
20223#5,885
20214#4,864
20200–
20190–
20180–
20170–
20160–
20150–
20140–
20133#6,003

How popular is Kaashvi in the US?

Rank in 2025
#5,916among girls
Babies in 2025
20about 1 in 80,000 girls
Five-year trend
Rising fastup 159% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 20 girls in the US were named Kaashvi, making it the 5,916th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,554th. Its busiest year was 2024, with 32 girls. It first appears in the records in 2010.

Half of all the girls named Kaashvi in the US since 1880 were born between 2017 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 57 girls in the US were given Kaashvi or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,400, up from #5,916 for this spelling alone.

2010Busiest: 32 in 20242025
Kaashvi in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202520#5,916
202432#4,386
202318#6,404
202211#9,050
20215#15,246
202014#7,554
20196#13,793
20187#12,459
20179#10,685
20168#11,776
20155#16,413
20140–
20136#14,577
20128#12,193
20110–
20107#13,442

Names like Kaashvi

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Kaashvi

More Sanskrit names

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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, “Kaashvi: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kaashvi, updated 20 October 2026.