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Flavia
Say it: FLAY-vee-uh
Meaning
Feminine of Flavius, from flavus 'golden, yellow-haired'.
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
A name of the later Empire that is in steady use in modern Italy and Brazil.
Its wave through time
Fading since the 1880s
In the United States
- 1,775 babies given this name since 1881
- At its height in 1884, about 1 in 12,900 girls
- 16 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
| Italian | Flavia |
|---|---|
| Spanish | Flavia |
| Portuguese | Flávia |
| Romanian | Flavia |
Famous bearers
- Flavia Julia Helena, St. Helena
- Flavia Domitilla, Roman Christian noblewoman
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Where this comes from
- Roman literature and history (Livy, Cicero, Tacitus and others)
- Roman inscriptions and tombstones
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
Meanings and histories are compiled from the study of names and their languages and checked by a second review.
Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.