Flavia
Flavia is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 10 births. Its best rank was 699th, in 1884.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 100.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 192139 births
- Best rank
- #699in 1884
- Since 1881
- 1,830people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,830 girls have been named Flavia in the United States since 1881, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1921, with 39 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1955, and the 1920s alone account for 14%. It has spent 2 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Flavia | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 38 | |
| 1890s | 50 | |
| 1900s | 70 | |
| 1910s | 176 | |
| 1920s | 258 | |
| 1930s | 152 | |
| 1940s | 113 | |
| 1950s | 115 | |
| 1960s | 120 | |
| 1970s | 134 | |
| 1980s | 109 | |
| 1990s | 132 | |
| 2000s | 150 | |
| 2010s | 147 | |
| 2020s | 66 |
In 1921, its biggest year
Flavia was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1921 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1921.
Names that rose and fell with Flavia
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Celiapeak 1915
- Evelinepeak 1922
- Rosinapeak 1924
- Georgianapeak 1918
- Georgiapeak 1947
- Magdalenepeak 1923
- Ninapeak 1980
- Lenorapeak 1924
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.