Gavi
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Acronym of Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/gabi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gavi is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country.
- PEPeru≈1 in 45K(inferred from the name graph)
- BOBolivia≈1 in 37K
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 82K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Peru (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 41 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 37K (inferred from the name graph)
≈700 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Bolivia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Acronym of Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gavi counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PE Peru | ≈700 est. | ≈1 in 45K | — | Gavi | 31 |
| CO Colombia | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 132K | 1 | Gavi | 16 |
| BO Bolivia | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Gavi | 14 |
| US United States | 198 | 1 in 1.7M | 104 | Gavi | 41 |
| DO Dominican Republic | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 82K | — | Gavi | 9 |
| CL Chile | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 360K | 1 | Gavi | 14 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: the co-datosgov-candidates register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Gavi is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In ibg, night; evening
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, sala Tirēnu jūrā, Itālijā, ietilpst Poncas salu grupā, kas atrodas uz rietumiem no Neapoles
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Lia GaviDEGerman journalist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 26 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 104 | #38,650 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 94 | #38,650 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 18 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 16 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 12 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2018 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1994 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2006 | 5 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 1995 | 1 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Gavi mean, and where does it come from?
- Acronym of Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Gavi?
- A machine transcription gives /gabi/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Gavi a male or female name?
- Gavi is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Gavi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 702 people named Gavi in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gavi.
- How common is the name Gavi?
- In the United States, the national register counted 198 people named Gavi in 2020, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.
What do you want to know about Gavi?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gaviThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Gavi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.