Sheva
- #5,917 for girls in 2025, 20 births
- Peak · girls
- 1967 · 9 births
- Debut · girls
- 8 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 373since 1966
Sheva over time
Rank among girls' names. Sheva has never cracked the top 4,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,917 | 20 |
| 2024 | #7,967 | 13 |
| 2023 | #6,169 | 19 |
| 2022 | #8,032 | 13 |
| 2021 | #13,464 | 6 |
| 2020 | #7,559 | 14 |
| 2019 | #15,539 | 5 |
| 2018 | #15,682 | 5 |
| 2017 | — | |
| 2016 | — | |
| 2015 | #10,148 | 10 |
| 2014 | #11,931 | 8 |
| 2013 | #11,969 | 8 |
| 2012 | #12,199 | 8 |
| 2011 | — | |
| 2010 | #13,448 | 7 |
| 2009 | #13,704 | 7 |
| 2008 | #13,832 | 7 |
| 2007 | #10,818 | 10 |
| 2006 | #12,420 | 8 |
| 2005 | #14,502 | 6 |
| 2004 | #12,761 | 7 |
| 2003 | #15,784 | 5 |
| 2002 | — | |
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| 2000 | #13,154 | 6 |
| 1999 | #12,688 | 6 |
| 1998 | #14,122 | 5 |
| 1997 | #13,724 | 5 |
| 1996 | — | |
| 1995 | #9,553 | 8 |
| 1994 | — | |
| 1993 | #8,052 | 10 |
| 1992 | #11,738 | 6 |
| 1991 | #8,588 | 9 |
| 1990 | — | |
| 1989 | #9,681 | 7 |
| 1988 | #7,691 | 9 |
| 1987 | #9,825 | 6 |
| 1986 | #9,545 | 6 |
| 1985 | #9,307 | 6 |
| 1984 | #9,144 | 6 |
| 1983 | #6,705 | 9 |
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| 1980 | #6,319 | 10 |
| 1979 | #6,696 | 9 |
| 1978 | #6,948 | 8 |
| 1977 | #6,340 | 9 |
| 1976 | #6,048 | 9 |
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| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 |
| 1972 | #7,292 | 6 |
| 1971 | #8,324 | 5 |
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| 1968 | #7,016 | 5 |
| 1967 | #4,625 | 9 |
| 1966 | #4,866 | 8 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Sheva! It came in at #4,866, and was given to 8 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1968–1971, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Sheva is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#667 · 1 in 3,227
Best ever in a state: #667 in New Jersey, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New Jersey | #667 | 11 | 1 in 3,227 |
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See more about Sheva
- 2,050 spots since 2024 (#7,967 → #5,917)
- 1,642 spots since 2020 (#7,559 → #5,917)
- 4,231 spots since 2015 (#10,148 → #5,917)
- Debuted 1966
- Peaked 1967 at #4,625 (9 births)
- Births halved by 1969, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 80,363 girls born in 2025 were named Sheva (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #4,625 in 1967, was only 1 in 183,447 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 22.8% of all girls named Sheva (85) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 22 | #4,625 (1967) | #5,502 |
| 1970s | 51 | #6,048 (1976) | #7,153 |
| 1980s | 59 | #6,319 (1980) | #8,527 |
| 1990s | 49 | #8,052 (1993) | #11,209 |
| 2000s | 56 | #10,818 (2007) | #13,372 |
| 2010s | 51 | #10,148 (2015) | #12,988 |
| 2020s | 85 | #5,917 (2025) | #8,185 |
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.
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