Chava
Chava was given to 117 girls in 2025, #1,737 among girls’ names; 3,552 Americans have been recorded with it since 1951 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,490 Americans named Chava and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 8 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Chava by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Chava mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Chava is “a female given name from Hebrew.” Its etymology gives the sense “Eve” (חַוָּה).
From Hebrew חַוָּה (khavá, “Eve”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Chava?
#1,737 among girls’ names, 2025
Chava rose from #2,062 in 2015 to #1,737 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 53.2 to 72.8 per million.
160 babies in 2024, the peak
Chava peaked in 2024, when 160 girls were given it, #1,399 among girls’ names. The 117 births of 2025 are 73% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 117 | #1,737 | 72.8 |
| 2024 | 160 | #1,399 | 98.8 |
| 2023 | 120 | #1,713 | 74.8 |
| 2022 | 151 | #1,465 | 92.1 |
| 2021 | 114 | #1,782 | 69.5 |
| 2020 | 110 | #1,795 | 68.0 |
| 2019 | 95 | #2,014 | 56.6 |
| 2018 | 98 | #1,999 | 57.6 |
| 2017 | 99 | #1,994 | 57.3 |
| 2016 | 112 | #1,842 | 63.2 |
Every recorded year (66)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 95 | #2,062 | 53.2 |
| 2014 | 82 | #2,273 | 45.9 |
| 2013 | 97 | #2,005 | 55.3 |
| 2012 | 98 | #1,985 | 55.6 |
| 2011 | 98 | #2,001 | 55.7 |
| 2010 | 95 | #2,078 | 53.4 |
| 2009 | 87 | #2,247 | 47.4 |
| 2008 | 84 | #2,322 | 44.4 |
| 2007 | 95 | #2,119 | 49.4 |
| 2006 | 79 | #2,379 | 41.6 |
| 2005 | 72 | #2,434 | 39.0 |
| 2004 | 69 | #2,447 | 37.6 |
| 2003 | 72 | #2,323 | 39.4 |
| 2002 | 55 | #2,749 | 30.6 |
| 2001 | 59 | #2,569 | 32.8 |
| 2000 | 47 | #2,983 | 25.9 |
| 1999 | 38 | #3,326 | 21.4 |
| 1998 | 52 | #2,618 | 29.4 |
| 1997 | 40 | #2,982 | 23.0 |
| 1996 | 55 | #2,374 | 31.4 |
| 1995 | 43 | #2,791 | 24.5 |
| 1994 | 42 | #2,846 | 23.5 |
| 1993 | 42 | #2,832 | 23.2 |
| 1992 | 34 | #3,274 | 18.4 |
| 1991 | 42 | #2,791 | 22.4 |
| 1990 | 45 | #2,602 | 23.7 |
| 1989 | 43 | #2,617 | 23.3 |
| 1988 | 37 | #2,808 | 20.8 |
| 1987 | 48 | #2,238 | 27.6 |
| 1986 | 41 | #2,425 | 23.9 |
| 1985 | 35 | #2,714 | 20.3 |
| 1984 | 41 | #2,344 | 24.3 |
| 1983 | 37 | #2,481 | 22.1 |
| 1982 | 29 | #3,028 | 17.1 |
| 1981 | 35 | #2,620 | 21.0 |
| 1980 | 26 | #3,232 | 15.7 |
| 1979 | 31 | #2,803 | 19.3 |
| 1978 | 23 | #3,301 | 15.0 |
| 1977 | 24 | #3,186 | 15.7 |
| 1976 | 29 | #2,671 | 19.8 |
| 1975 | 18 | #3,654 | 12.3 |
| 1974 | 22 | #3,126 | 15.0 |
| 1973 | 24 | #2,838 | 16.5 |
| 1972 | 17 | #3,570 | 11.2 |
| 1971 | 16 | #3,811 | 9.6 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,462 | 5.1 |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,107 | 5.3 |
| 1968 | 7 | #5,717 | 4.3 |
| 1966 | 11 | #3,996 | 6.5 |
| 1964 | 11 | #4,130 | 5.8 |
| 1963 | 5 | #6,737 | 2.6 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,371 | 3.6 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,372 | 3.5 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,386 | 2.5 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,235 | 3.1 |
| 1951 | 6 | #4,924 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Chava a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Chava has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 66 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Chava: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Chava, and how old are they?
3,490 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 3,552 Americans ever recorded as Chava. The median Chava alive today is 17 years old; half are between 8 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 2,562 people named Chava (2,422 women and girls, 140 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,764 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 39 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 250 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 631 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,130 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,440 |
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 Chava born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 49 | #165 | 8.3× |
| New York | 47 | #360 | 8.6× |
Where Chava is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Chava is most over-represented in New York: since 1951 it was given 8.6 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 Chava with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 4,458 babies since 1880, Chava is the most given (80% of them). In 2025 it was given to 117 of their 171 babies (68%), again the most given.
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 Chava
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 Chava and names like it
- Compare Chava and ChavyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sChava peaked in 2024.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Chava since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Chava: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Chava.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Chava alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with CMost given first.