Lavanya
- Gender
- Girl
- Origin
- Sanskrit
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,935 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #9,454 for girls
Lavanya is a girls' name of Sanskrit origin, meaning “beauty”. In 2025 it ranked 4,935th for girls in the UK (4 babies) and 9,454th for girls in the US (10 babies).
What does Lavanya mean?
Sanskrit
“beauty”
A female given name from Sanskrit commonly used in India.
From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Is Lavanya a girl's or a boy's name?
Lavanya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 4 girls in the UK and 10 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Lavanya in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,935th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 4 about 1 in 70,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady up 10% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 4 girls in the UK were named Lavanya, making it the 4,935th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2007, with 11 girls.
Half of all the girls named Lavanya in the UK since 1996 were born between 2006 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
Among girls in 2025, it was 4,866th in England and Wales.
Lavanya in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4 | #4,935 |
| 2024 | 4 | #4,907 |
| 2023 | 3 | #5,929 |
| 2022 | 6 | #3,728 |
| 2021 | 3 | #5,824 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 6 | #3,738 |
| 2018 | 4 | #4,914 |
| 2017 | 4 | #4,967 |
| 2016 | 6 | #3,788 |
| 2015 | 9 | #2,855 |
| 2014 | 3 | #5,920 |
| 2013 | 6 | #3,719 |
| 2012 | 3 | #6,108 |
| 2011 | 5 | #4,244 |
| 2010 | 6 | #3,715 |
| 2009 | 3 | #5,801 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 11 | #2,198 |
| 2006 | 5 | #3,724 |
| 2005 | 6 | #3,133 |
| 2004 | 7 | #2,669 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 3 | #4,156 |
| 2000 | 3 | #4,074 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 5 | #2,855 |
How popular is Lavanya in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 9,454th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 10 about 1 in 160,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 10 girls in the US were named Lavanya, making it the 9,454th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2007, with 18 girls. It first appears in the records in 1994.
Half of all the girls named Lavanya in the US since 1880 were born between 2005 and 2015, the years shaded on the chart below.
Lavanya in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,454 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,590 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,192 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,106 |
| 2018 | 5 | #15,677 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,337 |
| 2016 | 7 | #12,871 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,143 |
| 2014 | 5 | #16,507 |
| 2013 | 9 | #10,995 |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,477 |
| 2011 | 15 | #7,779 |
| 2010 | 15 | #7,877 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,054 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,080 |
| 2007 | 18 | #7,088 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,480 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,447 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,172 |
| 2003 | 16 | #6,880 |
| 2002 | 6 | #13,589 |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 8 | #10,738 |
| 1999 | 6 | #12,681 |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,579 |
| 1997 | 7 | #10,831 |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 5 | #13,423 |
Names like Lavanya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Arya, Navya, Aadhya, Aarya, Prisha, Aaradhya, Kavya, Anaya, Divisha, Akshara, Vanya, Anvika
Names related to Lavanya
More Sanskrit names
Maya, Bodhi, Lila, Arjun, Aarav, Rohan, Kali, Aryan, Opal, Arjan, Vihaan, Avyaan, Ishaan, Siya, Leena, Shivansh
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, “Lavanya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/lavanya, updated 20 October 2026.