Girls' name · since 1983
Tikvah
Tikvah has 51 recorded births since 1983 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2024 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #34,904 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #15,478 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 51
- born since 1983
- 2020s
- peak decade
51 babies have been named Tikvah since 1983, making it today's #15478 girls' name.
Tikvah has 51 recorded births among girls since 1983, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #15478 as of the latest data, more common than 11% of girls, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1983 to 2025.
- #34,904 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #15,478 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 51 born since 1983
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Tikvah ranks #34,904 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #15,478 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 51 born since 1983, peaking in the 2020s.
- #34,904 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #15,478 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 51
- born since 1983
- 2020s
- peak decade
Tikvah's 51 recorded births place it above 51.71% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Tikvah compares
51 16th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Tikvah's all-time total is 86% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Tikvah | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 51 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 7 | 21 | 19,840 |
Tikvah's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Tikvah's full recorded timeline at 2011, 57% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 43% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 1983, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2024 peak of 7 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Tikvah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1983–2025
- Peak year (2024)
- 7
- Annual births at peak, across 43 years of records
Tikvah by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (18 births, 35% of the file).
2020s was Tikvah's strongest decade.
18 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 35% of all-time use.
Tikvah births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1980s 5
1980s
5 births
- 1990s 6
1990s
6 births
- 2000s
2000s
11 births
- 2010s
2010s
11 births
- 2020s
2020s
18 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 18 births (35% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Tikvah: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2024)
Similar record span (~42 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1983–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Tikvah draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.