Flavia

Where Flavia comes from

Latin Flavia, feminine form of the gens name Flavius, probably from flavus (“yellow”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Flavia
  • Latin
  • 3 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1881
    First appearance
    #740 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1884
    Peak, #686
    10 babies named Flavia — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1885
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,047.
  4. 1982
    Flavia Pennetta born
    Italian tennis player
  5. 1983
    Flavia de Oliveira born
    Brazilian model
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Latin, quite rare in English.
Namesakes
  • Flavia Pennetta · Italian tennis player, born 1982
  • Flavia de Oliveira · Brazilian model, born 1983
  • Flavia Agnes · Indian activist and lawyer, born 1947
  • Flavia Rigamonti · Swiss swimmer, born 1981
  • Flavia Bujor · French writer and literary critic, born 1988

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.