Girls' name · since 1916
Beva
156 babies named Beva in U.S. Social Security records since 1916, with the highest year being 1929. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #22,345 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 156
- born since 1916
- 1940s
- peak decade
Beva is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 156 have been recorded since 1916.
Beva has 156 recorded births among girls since 1916, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1940s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1916 to 1964.
- #22,345 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 156 born since 1916
- 1940s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Beva ranks #22,345 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 156 born since 1916, peaking in the 1940s.
- #22,345 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 156
- born since 1916
- 1940s
- peak decade
Beva's 156 recorded births place it above 69.04% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Beva's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Beva splits its recorded history at 1941: 48% of all births land in the more recent half, 52% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 1916 (5 births) -- compare that against the 1929 peak of 10 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Beva popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1916–1964
- Peak year (1929)
- 10
- Annual births at peak, across 49 years of records
Beva by decade
1940s is the heaviest window (34 births, 22% of the file).
1940s was Beva's strongest decade.
34 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 22% of all-time use.
Beva births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1910s
1910s
19 births
- 1920s
1920s
32 births
- 1930s
1930s
30 births
- 1940s
1940s
34 births
- 1950s
1950s
31 births
- 1960s 10
1960s
10 births
What this shows Peak: 1940s at 34 births (22% of all-time use).
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- Beva's decade-level peak was the 1940s (34 total births); usage has since declined to 10 in the 1960s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Beva: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1929)
Similar record span (~48 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1916–1964 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Beva draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.