Chava — #1418 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Chava

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,432 babies named Chava between 1951 and 2024, spanning 74 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Chava currently holds the #1418 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 157 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Chava performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 969 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Chava shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 1,935 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New Jersey and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Chava in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Chava in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 3,432 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.