Heaven
Heaven was given to 556 girls in 2025, #543 among girls’ names; 30,804 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 30,500 Americans named Heaven and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 11 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Heaven by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Heaven mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Heaven is “a female given name from English of modern usage from the noun heaven.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Heaven?
#543 among girls’ names, 2025
Heaven fell from #347 in 2015 to #543 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.53 to 0.35 per 1,000.
1,370 babies in 2006, the peak
Heaven peaked in 2006, when 1,370 babies were given it (1,348 girls, #253 among girls’ names). The 569 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 42% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 556 | #543 | 0.35 |
| 2024 | 650 | #475 | 0.40 |
| 2023 | 593 | #513 | 0.37 |
| 2022 | 638 | #495 | 0.39 |
| 2021 | 642 | #490 | 0.39 |
| 2020 | 725 | #422 | 0.45 |
| 2019 | 749 | #422 | 0.45 |
| 2018 | 835 | #375 | 0.49 |
| 2017 | 969 | #334 | 0.56 |
| 2016 | 1,006 | #324 | 0.57 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 952 | #347 | 0.53 |
| 2014 | 1,002 | #336 | 0.56 |
| 2013 | 997 | #324 | 0.57 |
| 2012 | 1,002 | #321 | 0.57 |
| 2011 | 991 | #316 | 0.56 |
| 2010 | 992 | #322 | 0.56 |
| 2009 | 1,208 | #270 | 0.66 |
| 2008 | 1,249 | #274 | 0.66 |
| 2007 | 1,300 | #263 | 0.68 |
| 2006 | 1,348 | #253 | 0.71 |
| 2005 | 1,334 | #245 | 0.72 |
| 2004 | 1,211 | #268 | 0.66 |
| 2003 | 1,192 | #263 | 0.65 |
| 2002 | 1,135 | #276 | 0.63 |
| 2001 | 1,065 | #294 | 0.59 |
| 2000 | 903 | #341 | 0.50 |
| 1999 | 721 | #388 | 0.41 |
| 1998 | 808 | #358 | 0.46 |
| 1997 | 531 | #475 | 0.31 |
| 1996 | 389 | #587 | 0.22 |
| 1995 | 417 | #558 | 0.24 |
| 1994 | 357 | #621 | 0.20 |
| 1993 | 269 | #765 | 0.15 |
| 1992 | 259 | #785 | 0.14 |
| 1991 | 266 | #773 | 0.14 |
| 1990 | 230 | #857 | 0.12 |
| 1989 | 166 | #1,031 | 0.09 |
| 1988 | 131 | #1,168 | 0.07 |
| 1987 | 104 | #1,322 | 0.06 |
| 1986 | 85 | #1,478 | 0.05 |
| 1985 | 29 | #3,111 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 24 | #3,445 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 17 | #4,341 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 19 | #4,067 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 24 | #3,466 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 35 | #2,666 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 39 | #2,401 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 27 | #2,962 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 28 | #2,859 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 44 | #2,005 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 37 | #2,248 | 0.03 |
| 1974 | 35 | #2,267 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 13 | #4,443 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,726 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,209 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Heaven a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 30,804 Americans recorded as Heaven, 99% are girls and 1% boys. In 2025 it went to 556 girls and 13 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Heaven: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Heaven, and how old are they?
30,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 30,804 Americans ever recorded as Heaven. The median Heaven alive today is 18 years old; half are between 11 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 20,769 people named Heaven (20,404 women and girls, 365 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 26,839 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 257 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,730 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 17,000 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 10,500 |
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 Heaven born?
The states with the most babies named Heaven are Texas, California and Florida, with 28% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 60 | #535 | 1.1× |
| California | 47 | #668 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 40 | #465 | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 37 | #271 | 1.4× |
| New York | 31 | #537 | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 28 | #390 | 1.1× |
| Tennessee | 26 | #301 | 1.1× |
| Michigan | 22 | #397 | 1.1× |
| Virginia | 22 | #365 | 1.1× |
| Louisiana | 21 | #209 | 1.5× |
Where Heaven is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Heaven is most over-represented in District of Columbia: since 1971 it was given 1.7 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 Heaven 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 32,088 babies since 1880, Heaven is the most given (96% of them). In 2025 it was given to 569 of their 591 babies (96%), 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 Heaven
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 Heaven and names like it
- Compare Heaven and HeavynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sHeaven peaked in 2006.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Heaven since 1910.
- English namesWiktionary’s origin for Heaven: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Heaven.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Heaven alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with HMost given first.