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Thanvi

Gender
Girl
Say it
TAHN-vee
Origin
Sanskrit
UK rank, 2025
#3,776 for girls
US rank, 2025
#8,360 for girls

Thanvi is a girls' name of Sanskrit origin, meaning “slender, delicate”. In 2025 it ranked 3,776th for girls in the UK (6 babies) and 8,360th for girls in the US (12 babies).

What does Thanvi mean?

Sanskrit: South Indian spelling of Tanvi

“slender, delicate”

From Sanskrit tanvi, the feminine of tanu, 'slender, delicate'.

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

Thanvi is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the UK and 12 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Thanvi in the UK?

Rank in 2025
#3,776among girls
Babies in 2025
6about 1 in 46,000 girls
Five-year trend
Rising fastup 533% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 6 girls in the UK were named Thanvi, making it the 3,776th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2024, with 7 girls.

Among girls in 2025, it was 3,704th in England and Wales.

2010Busiest: 7 in 20242025
Thanvi in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20256#3,776
20247#3,381
20236#3,766
20220–
20214#4,864
20200–
20190–
20183#5,896
20173#5,998
20160–
20150–
20141#7,592
20130–
20120–
20110–
20101#7,520

How popular is Thanvi in the US?

Rank in 2025
#8,360among girls
Babies in 2025
12about 1 in 130,000 girls
Five-year trend
Fallingdown 40% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 12 girls in the US were named Thanvi, making it the 8,360th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,919th. Its busiest year was 2018, with 16 girls. It first appears in the records in 2006.

Half of all the girls named Thanvi in the US since 1880 were born between 2015 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.

2006Busiest: 16 in 20182025
Thanvi in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202512#8,360
20247#12,156
20239#10,307
202212#8,536
202111#8,973
202016#6,919
201915#7,338
201816#7,096
201714#7,836
201612#8,872
20159#10,861
20149#10,949
20130–
20127#13,477
20110–
20107#13,442
20096#15,236
20087#13,827
20070–
20066#15,147

Names like Thanvi

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

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