Entry № 5325 · Tamil origin

Kavitha Kavitha — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ kah-VEE-tah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Tamil
Meaning
"Poem"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "poem".

Kavitha (கவிதா) is the Tamil-Sanskrit word for "poem" — sister word to kavya. Used widely in South India.

Kavitha Lankesh is the Indian Kannada filmmaker.

Poem. The Tamil-Sanskrit verse.

The name in its native script.

கவிதா
Transliteration
Kavithā
Pronunciation
/ kəˈviː.tə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Kavitha stands.

Kavitha does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Kavithas before her.

Real people
Kavitha Lankesh
Indian Kannada filmmaker.
In fiction
Kavitha
Common in South Indian films.

Names connected to Kavitha.

The number behind Kavitha.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Kavitha reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.