Meaning not yet researched.
Heaven: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 556 in 2025. Its best rank was #245 in 2005.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #245 in 2005; #543 in 2025. About 98% of babies named Heaven in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#543 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2005, at #245.
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Heaven: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 556 girls in 2025. Peak: #245 in 2005 · most girls in one year: 1,348 (2006).
In 2025, 556 US girls were named Heaven, making it the 543rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 68 places from #475 in 2024. That is 94 fewer than the 650 girls named Heaven in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #245, reached in 2005. The most girls given the name in a single year was 1,348, in 2006. For comparison, it was #347 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Heaven in 55 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1971 with 8 babies. In all, 30,804 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 1.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 12,097 babies named Heaven.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 7,363 US girls were named Heaven; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 1,006. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,891 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Heaven ranked highest in Mississippi in 2025, at #189 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Heavyn (910 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Heavan, Heavin and Hevin are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Heavan (156), Heavin (129), Hevin (89), Hevyn (44), Heven (40), Heavynn (40), Hevan (18), Heavon (15), Heavenn (6).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Heaven in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 22 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 14 | #189 | #251 |
| Louisiana | 21 | #209 | #144 |
| West Virginia | 7 | #244 | #274 |
| Georgia | 37 | #271 | #209 |
| Tennessee | 26 | #301 | #240 |
| Maryland | 16 | #343 | #262 |
| Virginia | 22 | #365 | #236 |
| North Carolina | 28 | #390 | #284 |
| Michigan | 22 | #397 | #331 |
| Arkansas | 7 | #447 | #372 |
| Alabama | 11 | #454 | #212 |
| Nevada | 6 | #461 | #416 |
| Florida | 40 | #465 | #269 |
| South Carolina | 10 | #488 | #176 |
| Kentucky | 8 | #523 | #404 |
| Texas | 60 | #535 | #325 |
| New York | 31 | #537 | #335 |
| Oklahoma | 7 | #572 | #230 |
| Ohio | 17 | #603 | #346 |
| Pennsylvania | 16 | #629 | #340 |
| Massachusetts | 8 | #651 | #882 |
| California | 47 | #668 | #477 |
| Indiana | 9 | #681 | #362 |
| Illinois | 14 | #687 | #304 |
| New Jersey | 10 | #739 | #394 |
| Colorado | 7 | #741 | #649 |
| Washington | 7 | #845 | #794 |
| Arizona | 7 | #850 | #548 |
| Missouri | 5 | #981 | #303 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 556 | #543 | 13 | #6,590 |
| 2024 | 650 | #475 | 19 | #5,130 |
| 2023 | 593 | #513 | 7 | #10,113 |
| 2022 | 638 | #495 | 23 | #4,478 |
| 2021 | 642 | #490 | 22 | #4,541 |
| 2020 | 725 | #422 | 22 | #4,469 |
| 2019 | 749 | #422 | 20 | #4,862 |
| 2018 | 835 | #375 | 12 | #6,856 |
| 2017 | 969 | #334 | 13 | #6,445 |
| 2016 | 1,006 | #324 | 17 | #5,400 |
| 2015 | 952 | #347 | 16 | #5,599 |
| 2014 | 1,002 | #336 | 12 | #6,791 |
| 2013 | 997 | #324 | 11 | #7,216 |
| 2012 | 1,002 | #321 | 15 | #5,811 |
| 2011 | 991 | #316 | 13 | #6,369 |
| 2010 | 992 | #322 | 19 | #4,913 |
| 2009 | 1,208 | #270 | 17 | #5,398 |
| 2008 | 1,249 | #274 | 13 | #6,540 |
| 2007 | 1,300 | #263 | 11 | #7,278 |
| 2006 | 1,348 | #253 | 22 | #4,283 |
| 2005 | 1,334 | #245 | 16 | #5,117 |
| 2004 | 1,211 | #268 | 14 | #5,590 |
| 2003 | 1,192 | #263 | 15 | #5,129 |
| 2002 | 1,135 | #276 | 16 | #4,781 |
| 2001 | 1,065 | #294 | 14 | #5,231 |
| 2000 | 903 | #341 | 14 | #5,134 |
| 1999 | 721 | #388 | 16 | #4,429 |
| 1998 | 808 | #358 | 6 | #8,889 |
| 1997 | 531 | #475 | 9 | #6,280 |
| 1996 | 389 | #587 | — | — |
| 1995 | 417 | #558 | 6 | #8,177 |
| 1994 | 357 | #621 | — | — |
| 1993 | 269 | #766 | — | — |
| 1992 | 259 | #787 | — | — |
| 1991 | 266 | #773 | — | — |
| 1990 | 230 | #858 | — | — |
| 1989 | 166 | #1,034 | — | — |
| 1988 | 131 | #1,169 | — | — |
| 1987 | 104 | #1,323 | — | — |
| 1986 | 85 | #1,478 | — | — |
| 1985 | 29 | #3,112 | — | — |
| 1984 | 24 | #3,446 | — | — |
| 1983 | 17 | #4,342 | — | — |
| 1982 | 19 | #4,068 | — | — |
| 1981 | 24 | #3,466 | — | — |
| 1980 | 35 | #2,666 | — | — |
| 1979 | 39 | #2,401 | — | — |
| 1978 | 27 | #2,962 | — | — |
| 1977 | 28 | #2,860 | — | — |
| 1976 | 44 | #2,005 | — | — |
| 1975 | 37 | #2,248 | — | — |
| 1974 | 35 | #2,267 | — | — |
| 1973 | 13 | #4,444 | — | — |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,728 | — | — |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,211 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).