Heavenly
Heavenly was given to 199 girls in 2025, #1,166 among girls’ names; 5,485 Americans have been recorded with it since 1963 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,430 Americans named Heavenly and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 7 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Heavenly by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Heavenly mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Heavenly is “a female given name.”
See heavenly. Equivalent to Heaven + -ly.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Heavenly?
#1,166 among girls’ names, 2025
Heavenly fell from #966 in 2015 to #1,166 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.16 to 0.12 per 1,000.
350 babies in 2016, the peak
Heavenly peaked in 2016, when 350 girls were given it, #819 among girls’ names. The 199 births of 2025 are 57% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 199 | #1,166 | 0.12 |
| 2024 | 191 | #1,233 | 0.12 |
| 2023 | 195 | #1,217 | 0.12 |
| 2022 | 203 | #1,184 | 0.12 |
| 2021 | 222 | #1,112 | 0.14 |
| 2020 | 252 | #1,007 | 0.16 |
| 2019 | 296 | #901 | 0.18 |
| 2018 | 289 | #924 | 0.17 |
| 2017 | 308 | #883 | 0.18 |
| 2016 | 350 | #819 | 0.20 |
Every recorded year (59)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 281 | #966 | 0.16 |
| 2014 | 188 | #1,277 | 0.11 |
| 2013 | 170 | #1,374 | 0.10 |
| 2012 | 139 | #1,570 | 0.08 |
| 2011 | 116 | #1,760 | 0.07 |
| 2010 | 118 | #1,753 | 0.07 |
| 2009 | 163 | #1,433 | 0.09 |
| 2008 | 165 | #1,432 | 0.09 |
| 2007 | 150 | #1,531 | 0.08 |
| 2006 | 151 | #1,470 | 0.08 |
| 2005 | 169 | #1,310 | 0.09 |
| 2004 | 136 | #1,481 | 0.07 |
| 2003 | 123 | #1,565 | 0.07 |
| 2002 | 118 | #1,574 | 0.07 |
| 2001 | 123 | #1,517 | 0.07 |
| 2000 | 97 | #1,792 | 0.05 |
| 1999 | 75 | #2,058 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 60 | #2,345 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 41 | #2,943 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 50 | #2,522 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 29 | #3,693 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 23 | #4,414 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 25 | #4,140 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 25 | #4,122 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 20 | #4,869 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 22 | #4,420 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,124 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 13 | #6,005 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,394 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,312 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,461 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 9 | #6,995 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,659 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,367 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,454 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,547 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,583 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,106 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,805 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,726 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,041 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,761 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,727 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,770 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 8 | #5,999 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,406 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,930 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,478 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,123 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Heavenly a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Heavenly has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 59 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Heavenly: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Heavenly, and how old are they?
5,430 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 5,485 Americans ever recorded as Heavenly. The median Heavenly alive today is 11 years old; half are between 7 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 3,213 people named Heavenly (3,191 women and girls, 22 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,248 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 5 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 89 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 289 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,920 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,130 |
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 Heavenly born?
The states with the most babies named Heavenly are Texas, California and Florida, with 53% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 31 | #929 | 1.2× |
| California | 24 | #1,099 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 15 | #1,020 | 0.8× |
| New York | 9 | #1,448 | 0.6× |
| Tennessee | 9 | #774 | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,121 | 1.1× |
| Arizona | 8 | #775 | 0.4× |
| Nevada | 8 | #351 | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,548 | 1.0× |
| Mississippi | 5 | #567 | 0.8× |
Where Heavenly is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Heavenly is most over-represented in Texas: since 1963 it was given 1.2 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 Heavenly 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 6,364 babies since 1880, Heavenly is the most given (86% of them). In 2025 it was given to 199 of their 213 babies (93%), 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 Heavenly
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 Heavenly and names like it
- Compare Heavenly and HeavenleeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sHeavenly peaked in 2016.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Heavenly since 1910.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Heavenly.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Heavenly alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with HMost given first.