Heaven Girl
How popular is Heaven?
#543 girl name in 2025
556 baby girls were named Heaven in the US in 2025, making it the 543rd most popular girl name. Another 13 boys got the name (#6,442 for boys).
Heaven popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #543 for girls (▼ 69 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 556 girls, 13 boys |
| 10-year trend | Falling (-42% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #346 in 2015, #421 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2006 (1,348 girls) |
| Highest rank | #245 in 2005 |
| First recorded | 1971 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 2% boys, 98% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.4% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Heaven counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Heaven family of names ranked #494 for girls in 2025 (#442 the year before), with 583 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Heaven | 556 | 95% |
| Heavyn | 22 | 4% |
| Hevyn | 5 | 1% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Heaven is most popular
Babies named Heaven per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Mississippi: 1.3 per 1,000 (62 girls)
- District of Columbia: 1.1 per 1,000 (13 girls)
- Louisiana: 1.1 per 1,000 (94 girls)
- South Carolina: 0.9 per 1,000 (81 girls)
- Georgia: 0.9 per 1,000 (200 girls)
Heaven by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 236 | #1,996 |
| 1980s | 634 | #1,029 |
| 1990s | 4,247 | #357 |
| 2000s | 11,945 | #245 |
| 2010s | 9,495 | #316 |
| 2020s | 3,804 | #421 |
Girl names about as popular as Heaven
Questions
- Is Heaven a boy or girl name?
- Heaven is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 98% of babies named Heaven were girls.
- How popular is the name Heaven?
- 556 baby girls were named Heaven in the US in 2025, making it the 543rd most popular girl name. Another 13 boys got the name (#6,442 for boys).
- When was Heaven most popular?
- Heaven peaked in 2006, when 1,348 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #245 in 2005.
- How many people are named Heaven?
- 30,804 babies have been named Heaven in the US since 1880. We estimate about 30,529 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 18.
- Where is Heaven most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Heaven was most common in Mississippi, at 1.3 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.