Ahava
Ahava was given to 29 girls in 2025, #4,662 among girls’ names; 438 Americans have been recorded with it since 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ahava by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ahava?
#4,662 among girls’ names, 2025
Ahava rose from #6,726 in 2015 to #4,662 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 10.1 to 18.0 per million.
32 babies in 2023, the peak
Ahava peaked in 2023, when 32 girls were given it, #4,365 among girls’ names. The 29 births of 2025 are 91% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29 | #4,662 | 18.0 |
| 2024 | 25 | #5,149 | 15.4 |
| 2023 | 32 | #4,365 | 19.9 |
| 2022 | 24 | #5,311 | 14.6 |
| 2021 | 22 | #5,574 | 13.4 |
| 2020 | 23 | #5,316 | 14.2 |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,028 | 9.5 |
| 2018 | 23 | #5,455 | 13.5 |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,343 | 13.9 |
| 2016 | 17 | #6,908 | 9.6 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 18 | #6,726 | 10.1 |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,647 | 8.4 |
| 2013 | 22 | #5,836 | 12.5 |
| 2012 | 15 | #7,807 | 8.5 |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,123 | 9.7 |
| 2010 | 15 | #7,888 | 8.4 |
| 2009 | 13 | #8,898 | 7.1 |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,598 | 4.2 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,526 | 7.3 |
| 2006 | 15 | #7,873 | 7.9 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,137 | 5.4 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,212 | 3.3 |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,433 | 3.8 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,445 | 7.8 |
| 2000 | 8 | #10,753 | 4.4 |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,455 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ahava a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ahava has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 26 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ahava: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ahava, and how old are they?
An estimated 435 Americans named Ahava and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 4 and 16. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 282 people named Ahava (274 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 287 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 357,902 babies since 1880, Ahava is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 29 of their 8,374 babies (<1%), the seventh most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Ahava
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Ahava and names like it
- Compare Ahava and AvaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Ahava.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ahava alive today were born 2013-2025.
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