Heaven
#543 for girls in 2025, 556 births · #6,446 for boys in 2025, 13 births
Given to girls 98.6% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2005 · 1,334 births
- Debut · girls
- 8 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 30,361since 1971
Heaven over time
Rank among girls' names. Heaven has never cracked the top 200 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #543 | 556 | #6,446 | 13 |
| 2024 | #474 | 650 | #5,067 | 19 |
| 2023 | #512 | 593 | #9,763 | 7 |
| 2022 | #495 | 638 | #4,442 | 23 |
| 2021 | #490 | 642 | #4,494 | 22 |
| 2020 | #421 | 725 | #4,426 | 22 |
| 2019 | #422 | 749 | #4,806 | 20 |
| 2018 | #375 | 835 | #6,703 | 12 |
| 2017 | #334 | 969 | #6,338 | 13 |
| 2016 | #324 | 1,006 | #5,318 | 17 |
| 2015 | #346 | 952 | #5,507 | 16 |
| 2014 | #336 | 1,002 | #6,632 | 12 |
| 2013 | #324 | 997 | #7,026 | 11 |
| 2012 | #321 | 1,002 | #5,720 | 15 |
| 2011 | #316 | 991 | #6,256 | 13 |
| 2010 | #322 | 992 | #4,848 | 19 |
| 2009 | #270 | 1,208 | #5,334 | 17 |
| 2008 | #274 | 1,249 | #6,393 | 13 |
| 2007 | #263 | 1,300 | #7,094 | 11 |
| 2006 | #253 | 1,348 | #4,223 | 22 |
| 2005 | #245 | 1,334 | #5,034 | 16 |
| 2004 | #268 | 1,211 | #5,492 | 14 |
| 2003 | #263 | 1,192 | #5,035 | 15 |
| 2002 | #276 | 1,135 | #4,703 | 16 |
| 2001 | #294 | 1,065 | #5,142 | 14 |
| 2000 | #341 | 903 | #5,040 | 14 |
| 1999 | #388 | 721 | #4,341 | 16 |
| 1998 | #357 | 808 | #8,479 | 6 |
| 1997 | #474 | 531 | #6,100 | 9 |
| 1996 | #586 | 389 | — | |
| 1995 | #558 | 417 | #7,792 | 6 |
| 1994 | #621 | 357 | — | |
| 1993 | #764 | 269 | — | |
| 1992 | #787 | 259 | — | |
| 1991 | #773 | 266 | — | |
| 1990 | #855 | 230 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,032 | 166 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,164 | 131 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,318 | 104 | — | |
| 1986 | #1,472 | 85 | — | |
| 1985 | #3,084 | 29 | — | |
| 1984 | #3,423 | 24 | — | |
| 1983 | #4,286 | 17 | — | |
| 1982 | #4,025 | 19 | — | |
| 1981 | #3,436 | 24 | — | |
| 1980 | #2,651 | 35 | — | |
| 1979 | #2,387 | 39 | — | |
| 1978 | #2,942 | 27 | — | |
| 1977 | #2,838 | 28 | — | |
| 1976 | #1,996 | 44 | — | |
| 1975 | #2,232 | 37 | — | |
| 1974 | #2,254 | 35 | — | |
| 1973 | #4,362 | 13 | — | |
| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 | — | |
| 1971 | #6,006 | 8 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Heaven! It came in at #6,006, and was given to 8 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1972, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Heaven
- 69 spots since 2024 (#474 → #543)
- 122 spots since 2020 (#421 → #543)
- 197 spots since 2015 (#346 → #543)
- Biggest jump: 177 spots in 1990 (#1,032 → #855)
- Biggest drop: 69 spots in 2021 (#421 → #490)
- Debuted 1971
- Peaked 2005 at #245 (1,334 births)
- Births halved by 2021, 16 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 36 yrs · run 1990–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,385 girls born in 2005 were named Heaven (0.07%)
- Latest: 1 in 2,891 girls born in 2025 (0.03%)
- 39.3% of all girls named Heaven (11,945) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 236 | #1,996 (1976) | #3,701 |
| 1980s | 634 | #1,032 (1989) | #2,589 |
| 1990s | 4,247 | #357 (1998) | #616 |
| 2000s | 11,945 | #245 (2005) | #275 |
| 2010s | 9,495 | #316 (2011) | #342 |
| 2020s | 3,804 | #421 (2020) | #489 |
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.
Heaven in 1997
Top girls' names in 1997
Top boys' names in 1997
More about 1997
girls
1,740,710 girls got a published name in 1997; 1 in 3,278 of them was named Heaven, which outranked 97.1% of the 16,163 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,885,140 boys got a published name in 1997; 1 in 209,460 of them was named Heaven, which outranked 43.6% of the 10,814 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #5,642Zedrick10
- #5,642Ziare10
- #5,642Zvi10
- #6,100Heaven9
- #6,100Ab9
- #6,100Abdulmalik9
- #6,100Abdulrahim9
- #6,618Abanoub8
- #6,618Abdalla8
- #6,618Abed8
Tied with 517 names at #6,100; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.