Batsheva
Batsheva was given to 82 girls in 2025, #2,240 among girls’ names; 2,198 Americans have been recorded with it since 1969 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,170 Americans named Batsheva and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 7 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Batsheva by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Batsheva?
#2,240 among girls’ names, 2025
Batsheva held from #2,240 in 2015 to #2,240 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 47.1 to 51.0 per million.
195 babies in 2012, the peak
Batsheva peaked in 2012, when 195 girls were given it, #1,244 among girls’ names. The 82 births of 2025 are 42% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 82 | #2,240 | 0.05 |
| 2024 | 91 | #2,103 | 0.06 |
| 2023 | 87 | #2,178 | 0.05 |
| 2022 | 95 | #2,037 | 0.06 |
| 2021 | 87 | #2,155 | 0.05 |
| 2020 | 76 | #2,323 | 0.05 |
| 2019 | 73 | #2,438 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 88 | #2,148 | 0.05 |
| 2017 | 74 | #2,439 | 0.04 |
| 2016 | 81 | #2,325 | 0.05 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 84 | #2,240 | 0.05 |
| 2014 | 122 | #1,715 | 0.07 |
| 2013 | 156 | #1,440 | 0.09 |
| 2012 | 195 | #1,244 | 0.11 |
| 2011 | 79 | #2,350 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 34 | #4,321 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 35 | #4,285 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 24 | #5,782 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 36 | #4,224 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 36 | #4,082 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 29 | #4,594 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 29 | #4,610 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 29 | #4,431 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 34 | #3,817 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 30 | #4,111 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 26 | #4,539 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 29 | #3,984 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 21 | #4,974 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 16 | #5,912 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 28 | #3,839 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 23 | #4,356 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,356 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 27 | #3,885 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 20 | #4,859 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,419 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 21 | #4,530 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,064 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,307 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 16 | #4,871 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,477 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 19 | #4,137 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,466 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,543 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,367 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 11 | #5,943 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,228 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 10 | #5,990 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,538 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,245 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,233 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,528 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,621 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,562 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Batsheva a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Batsheva has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 53 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Batsheva: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Batsheva, and how old are they?
2,170 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,198 Americans ever recorded as Batsheva. The median Batsheva alive today is 13 years old; half are between 7 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 1,594 people named Batsheva (1,591 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,682 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 63 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 247 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 675 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,190 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Batsheva born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 40 | #207 | 12.8× |
| New York | 24 | #680 | 6.5× |
Where Batsheva is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Batsheva is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1969 it was given 12.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Batsheva with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Batsheva
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 Batsheva and names like it
- Compare Batsheva and ShanayaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBatsheva peaked in 2012.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Batsheva since 1910.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Batsheva.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Batsheva alive today were born 2013-2025.
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