Flavia
Flavia reached its high-water mark in 1921 at number 1,237, and has been recorded 1,843 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 7,885th. About 1,000 Flavias are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 38.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Flavia
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,843
- Estimated living today
- 1,000
- Median age today
- 38
- Peak year
- 1921
- Best rank
- 1,237th
- Rank in 2025
- 7,885th
- First recorded
- 1881
How old the living Flavias are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,843 babies given the name since 1881, about 1,000 are alive — 56 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1987 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Latin
feminine form of the gens name Flavius, probably from flavus (“yellow”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Flavias
- Flavia Pennetta (born 1982)Italian tennis player
- Flávia Saraiva (born 1999)Brazilian artistic gymnast
- Flávia Alessandra (born 1974)Brazilian actress
- Hilda Flavia Nakabuye (born 1997)Ugandan climate and environmental rights activist
- Flavia de Oliveira (born 1983)Brazilian model
- Flavia Rigamonti (born 1981)Swiss swimmer
- Flávia Oliveira (born 1981)Brazilian Olympic cyclist
- Flavia Agnes (born 1947)Indian activist and lawyer
People named Flavia with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Flavia is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Flavia is most concentrated in Florida (8.3×), Louisiana (7.0×), California (2.8×), New York (1.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1921
The most popular girls’ names the year Flavia peaked:
Flavia elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italy girls | Flavia | 15,314 | — |
| France girls | Flavia | 1,365 | 779th |
| Switzerland girls | Flavia | 1,038 | 94th |
| England and Wales girls | Flavia | 266 | 1,711th |
| Belgium girls | Flavia | 210 | 652nd |
| Poland girls | Flavia | 30 birth registrations | 371st |
| Ireland girls | Flavia | 7 | 736th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Flavia: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Flavia | 928 | 0.075% | 71st |
| French girls | Switzerland | Flavia | 79 | 0.018% | 198th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Flavia | 19 | 0.029% | 104th |
| Romansh girls | Switzerland | Flavia | 12 | 0.323% | 5th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Flavia is most concentrated in Graubünden, where 0.17% of children were given it – 66 of them.
Flavia: rank by region
In 2022, Flavia was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Flavia | 267 | 11 |
In 2018, Flavia was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Flavia | 10 | 1 |
In 2024, Flavia was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dolnośląskie | Flavia | 253 | 2 |
In 2022, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Flavia appears in the lists for Province of Hainaut (210th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Flavia by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 3 | 497th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Flavia among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Flavia | 8 | 12 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Flavia lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 1,731 women called Flavia were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pontevedra | Flavia | 80 | 0.163 | 509 |
| León | Flavia | 34 | 0.148 | 612 |
| Coruña, A | Flavia | 77 | 0.130 | 599 |
| Madrid | Flavia | 444 | 0.120 | 608 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Flavia | 63 | 0.114 | 831 |
| Guadalajara | Flavia | 14 | 0.100 | 729 |
Listed in 42 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 10 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Flavia against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.