Haven — #202 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Haven

The Social Security Administration has registered 21,229 babies named Haven between 1920 and 2024, spanning 105 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Haven currently holds the #202 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 1,517 babies received it in a single year. Haven is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 4,732 additional births since 1899.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Haven performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 8,842 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Haven shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 2,040 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and North Carolina. In total, SSA state-level files list Haven in 48 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Haven 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 21,229 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.