Chava
#1,733 for girls in 2025, 117 births
- Peak · girls
- 2024 · 160 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,552since 1951
Chava over time
Rank among girls' names. Chava has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,733 | 117 |
| 2024 | #1,398 | 160 |
| 2023 | #1,709 | 120 |
| 2022 | #1,463 | 151 |
| 2021 | #1,780 | 114 |
| 2020 | #1,792 | 110 |
| 2019 | #2,011 | 95 |
| 2018 | #1,997 | 98 |
| 2017 | #1,989 | 99 |
| 2016 | #1,841 | 112 |
| 2015 | #2,060 | 95 |
| 2014 | #2,267 | 82 |
| 2013 | #2,002 | 97 |
| 2012 | #1,983 | 98 |
| 2011 | #2,000 | 98 |
| 2010 | #2,077 | 95 |
| 2009 | #2,244 | 87 |
| 2008 | #2,318 | 84 |
| 2007 | #2,117 | 95 |
| 2006 | #2,375 | 79 |
| 2005 | #2,436 | 72 |
| 2004 | #2,446 | 69 |
| 2003 | #2,321 | 72 |
| 2002 | #2,745 | 55 |
| 2001 | #2,571 | 59 |
| 2000 | #2,974 | 47 |
| 1999 | #3,313 | 38 |
| 1998 | #2,614 | 52 |
| 1997 | #2,977 | 40 |
| 1996 | #2,372 | 55 |
| 1995 | #2,788 | 43 |
| 1994 | #2,848 | 42 |
| 1993 | #2,825 | 42 |
| 1992 | #3,267 | 34 |
| 1991 | #2,790 | 42 |
| 1990 | #2,600 | 45 |
| 1989 | #2,618 | 43 |
| 1988 | #2,803 | 37 |
| 1987 | #2,236 | 48 |
| 1986 | #2,420 | 41 |
| 1985 | #2,704 | 35 |
| 1984 | #2,340 | 41 |
| 1983 | #2,475 | 37 |
| 1982 | #3,017 | 29 |
| 1981 | #2,614 | 35 |
| 1980 | #3,215 | 26 |
| 1979 | #2,795 | 31 |
| 1978 | #3,283 | 23 |
| 1977 | #3,176 | 24 |
| 1976 | #2,664 | 29 |
| 1975 | #3,637 | 18 |
| 1974 | #3,110 | 22 |
| 1973 | #2,830 | 24 |
| 1972 | #3,543 | 17 |
| 1971 | #3,789 | 16 |
| 1970 | #5,413 | 9 |
| 1969 | #5,057 | 9 |
| 1968 | #5,642 | 7 |
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| 1966 | #3,959 | 11 |
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| 1964 | #4,096 | 11 |
| 1963 | #6,592 | 5 |
| 1962 | #5,293 | 7 |
| 1961 | #5,309 | 7 |
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| 1959 | #6,245 | 5 |
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| 1954 | #5,148 | 6 |
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| 1951 | #4,833 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Chava! It came in at #4,833, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1952–1953, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
See more about Chava
- 335 spots since 2024 (#1,398 → #1,733)
- 59 spots since 2020 (#1,792 → #1,733)
- 327 spots since 2015 (#2,060 → #1,733)
- Debuted 1951
- Peaked 2024 at #1,398 (160 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 10,126 girls born in 2024 were named Chava (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 13,737 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 27.3% of all girls named Chava (969) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 17 | #4,833 (1951) | #5,409 |
| 1960s | 57 | #3,959 (1966) | #5,135 |
| 1970s | 213 | #2,664 (1976) | #3,424 |
| 1980s | 372 | #2,236 (1987) | #2,644 |
| 1990s | 433 | #2,372 (1996) | #2,839 |
| 2000s | 719 | #2,117 (2007) | #2,455 |
| 2010s | 969 | #1,841 (2016) | #2,023 |
| 2020s | 772 | #1,398 (2024) | #1,646 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Chava in 2010
Top girls' names in 2010
More about 2010
girls
1,777,595 girls got a published name in 2010; 1 in 18,712 of them was named Chava, which outranked 89.5% of the 19,841 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,059Symone96
- #2,059Yana96
- #2,059Zaniah96
- #2,077Chava95
- #2,077Aziyah95
- #2,077Dariana95
- #2,077Devorah95
- #2,093Abbigale94
- #2,093Akeelah94
- #2,093Ameera94
Tied with 15 names at #2,077; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.