Sheva
Sheva was given to 20 girls in 2025, #6,083 among girls’ names; 373 Americans have been recorded with it since 1966 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sheva by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sheva?
#6,083 among girls’ names, 2025
Sheva rose from #10,754 in 2015 to #6,083 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 5.6 to 12.4 per million.
20 babies in 2025, the peak
Sheva peaked in 2025, when 20 girls were given it, #6,083 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 13 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #6,083 | 12.4 |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,359 | 8.0 |
| 2023 | 19 | #6,372 | 11.8 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,458 | 7.9 |
| 2021 | 6 | #15,000 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,904 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,623 | 3.0 |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,764 | 2.9 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,754 | 5.6 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,899 | 4.5 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 8 | #12,985 | 4.6 |
| 2012 | 8 | #13,290 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,729 | 3.9 |
| 2009 | 7 | #15,002 | 3.8 |
| 2008 | 7 | #15,158 | 3.7 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,506 | 5.2 |
| 2006 | 8 | #13,437 | 4.2 |
| 2005 | 6 | #16,139 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,973 | 3.8 |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,995 | 2.7 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,742 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 6 | #14,150 | 3.4 |
| 1998 | 5 | #16,222 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,774 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,374 | 4.5 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,616 | 5.5 |
| 1992 | 6 | #13,116 | 3.3 |
| 1991 | 9 | #9,234 | 4.8 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,668 | 3.8 |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,292 | 5.1 |
| 1987 | 6 | #11,084 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,701 | 3.5 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,471 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 6 | #10,191 | 3.6 |
| 1983 | 9 | #7,202 | 5.4 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,701 | 6.0 |
| 1979 | 9 | #7,216 | 5.6 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,540 | 5.2 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,797 | 5.9 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,509 | 6.1 |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,567 | 3.4 |
| 1972 | 6 | #8,094 | 3.9 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,400 | 3.0 |
| 1968 | 5 | #8,007 | 3.0 |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,922 | 5.5 |
| 1966 | 8 | #5,212 | 4.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sheva a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sheva has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 46 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sheva: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sheva, and how old are they?
An estimated 364 Americans named Sheva and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 8 and 42. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 394 people named Sheva (386 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 285 born in the U.S. The Census count is 38% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 812 babies since 1880, Sheva is the second most given (46% of them). In 2025 it was given to 20 of their 44 babies (45%), again the second 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 Sheva
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 Sheva and names like it
- Compare Sheva and ShevyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sSheva peaked in 2025.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sheva since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Sheva.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Sheva alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.