Sheba

Where Sheba comes from

From Biblical Hebrew שְׁבָא (Šəḇāʾ).
— Wiktionary's entry for Sheba
  • Hebrew
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1916
    First appearance
    #3,258 among girls, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1975
    Peak, #1,544
    65 babies named Sheba — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1976
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,486.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Hebrew.
  • A female given name from Hebrew.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.