Heaven
#543 for girls in 2025, 556 births · #6,446 for boys in 2025, 13 births
Given to girls 98.6% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2005 · 1,334 births
- Debut · girls
- 8 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 30,361since 1971
Heaven over time
Rank among girls' names. Heaven has never cracked the top 200 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #543 | 556 | #6,446 | 13 |
| 2024 | #474 | 650 | #5,067 | 19 |
| 2023 | #512 | 593 | #9,763 | 7 |
| 2022 | #495 | 638 | #4,442 | 23 |
| 2021 | #490 | 642 | #4,494 | 22 |
| 2020 | #421 | 725 | #4,426 | 22 |
| 2019 | #422 | 749 | #4,806 | 20 |
| 2018 | #375 | 835 | #6,703 | 12 |
| 2017 | #334 | 969 | #6,338 | 13 |
| 2016 | #324 | 1,006 | #5,318 | 17 |
| 2015 | #346 | 952 | #5,507 | 16 |
| 2014 | #336 | 1,002 | #6,632 | 12 |
| 2013 | #324 | 997 | #7,026 | 11 |
| 2012 | #321 | 1,002 | #5,720 | 15 |
| 2011 | #316 | 991 | #6,256 | 13 |
| 2010 | #322 | 992 | #4,848 | 19 |
| 2009 | #270 | 1,208 | #5,334 | 17 |
| 2008 | #274 | 1,249 | #6,393 | 13 |
| 2007 | #263 | 1,300 | #7,094 | 11 |
| 2006 | #253 | 1,348 | #4,223 | 22 |
| 2005 | #245 | 1,334 | #5,034 | 16 |
| 2004 | #268 | 1,211 | #5,492 | 14 |
| 2003 | #263 | 1,192 | #5,035 | 15 |
| 2002 | #276 | 1,135 | #4,703 | 16 |
| 2001 | #294 | 1,065 | #5,142 | 14 |
| 2000 | #341 | 903 | #5,040 | 14 |
| 1999 | #388 | 721 | #4,341 | 16 |
| 1998 | #357 | 808 | #8,479 | 6 |
| 1997 | #474 | 531 | #6,100 | 9 |
| 1996 | #586 | 389 | — | |
| 1995 | #558 | 417 | #7,792 | 6 |
| 1994 | #621 | 357 | — | |
| 1993 | #764 | 269 | — | |
| 1992 | #787 | 259 | — | |
| 1991 | #773 | 266 | — | |
| 1990 | #855 | 230 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,032 | 166 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,164 | 131 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,318 | 104 | — | |
| 1986 | #1,472 | 85 | — | |
| 1985 | #3,084 | 29 | — | |
| 1984 | #3,423 | 24 | — | |
| 1983 | #4,286 | 17 | — | |
| 1982 | #4,025 | 19 | — | |
| 1981 | #3,436 | 24 | — | |
| 1980 | #2,651 | 35 | — | |
| 1979 | #2,387 | 39 | — | |
| 1978 | #2,942 | 27 | — | |
| 1977 | #2,838 | 28 | — | |
| 1976 | #1,996 | 44 | — | |
| 1975 | #2,232 | 37 | — | |
| 1974 | #2,254 | 35 | — | |
| 1973 | #4,362 | 13 | — | |
| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 | — | |
| 1971 | #6,006 | 8 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Heaven! It came in at #6,006, and was given to 8 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1972, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Heaven is popular in 2011
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- District of Columbia#102 · 1 in 327
- Louisiana#160 · 1 in 697
- Missouri#173 · 1 in 773
- Tennessee#201 · 1 in 871
- Michigan#201 · 1 in 941
Best ever in a state: #63 in District of Columbia, 2009.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | #102 | 9 | 1 in 327 |
| Louisiana | #160 | 28 | 1 in 697 |
| Missouri | #173 | 35 | 1 in 773 |
| Michigan | #201 | 44 | 1 in 941 |
| Tennessee | #201 | 34 | 1 in 871 |
| Ohio | #211 | 52 | 1 in 992 |
| Illinois | #212 | 62 | 1 in 959 |
| Georgia | #220 | 48 | 1 in 994 |
| Mississippi | #231 | 12 | 1 in 928 |
| Arkansas | #232 | 13 | 1 in 886 |
| New York | #241 | 78 | 1 in 1,189 |
| North Carolina | #248 | 40 | 1 in 1,104 |
| Kentucky | #260 | 16 | 1 in 1,149 |
| South Carolina | #268 | 16 | 1 in 1,092 |
| Alabama | #270 | 16 | 1 in 1,167 |
| Pennsylvania | #273 | 41 | 1 in 1,288 |
| Maryland | #288 | 19 | 1 in 1,262 |
| Virginia | #293 | 27 | 1 in 1,335 |
| Florida | #308 | 51 | 1 in 1,559 |
| New Mexico | #312 | 7 | 1 in 1,046 |
| Oklahoma | #320 | 13 | 1 in 1,259 |
| Texas | #339 | 95 | 1 in 1,641 |
| Indiana | #347 | 20 | 1 in 1,517 |
| Nevada | #350 | 8 | 1 in 1,313 |
| Connecticut | #393 | 7 | 1 in 1,724 |
| New Jersey | #406 | 19 | 1 in 1,945 |
| California | #448 | 87 | 1 in 2,386 |
| Oregon | #455 | 8 | 1 in 1,855 |
| Kansas | #500 | 6 | 1 in 2,115 |
| Wisconsin | #500 | 10 | 1 in 2,344 |
| Minnesota | #501 | 10 | 1 in 2,391 |
| Iowa | #540 | 5 | 1 in 2,488 |
| Arizona | #559 | 12 | 1 in 2,543 |
| Colorado | #671 | 7 | 1 in 3,199 |
| Washington | #936 | 6 | 1 in 5,035 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Heaven
- 69 spots since 2024 (#474 → #543)
- 122 spots since 2020 (#421 → #543)
- 197 spots since 2015 (#346 → #543)
- Biggest jump: 177 spots in 1990 (#1,032 → #855)
- Biggest drop: 69 spots in 2021 (#421 → #490)
- Debuted 1971
- Peaked 2005 at #245 (1,334 births)
- Births halved by 2021, 16 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 36 yrs · run 1990–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,385 girls born in 2005 were named Heaven (0.07%)
- Latest: 1 in 2,891 girls born in 2025 (0.03%)
- 39.3% of all girls named Heaven (11,945) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 236 | #1,996 (1976) | #3,701 |
| 1980s | 634 | #1,032 (1989) | #2,589 |
| 1990s | 4,247 | #357 (1998) | #616 |
| 2000s | 11,945 | #245 (2005) | #275 |
| 2010s | 9,495 | #316 (2011) | #342 |
| 2020s | 3,804 | #421 (2020) | #489 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Heaven in 2011
Top girls' names in 2011
Top boys' names in 2011
More about 2011
girls
1,759,066 girls got a published name in 2011; 1 in 1,775 of them was named Heaven, which outranked 98.4% of the 19,590 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,899,252 boys got a published name in 2011; 1 in 146,096 of them was named Heaven, which outranked 56.4% of the 14,360 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #5,945Ziah14
- #5,945Zoe14
- #5,945Zyhir14
- #6,256Heaven13
- #6,256Aashir13
- #6,256Aasim13
- #6,256Adal13
- #6,578Aarit12
- #6,578Adden12
- #6,578Adley12
Tied with 321 names at #6,256; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.