girls:
29.1k births since 1971
#835 (85th percentile)
boys:
410 births since 1995
#4176 (9th percentile)
overall:
29.5k births since 1971
#1485 (81st percentile)
The name Heaven is the #1,485 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 29,538 recorded births since 1971. This represents the 80.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 80.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #835 (85.4% percentile) for all time with 29,128 births since 1971. For boys, it ranks #4,176 (8.9% percentile) for all time with 410 births since 1995.
Heaven first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1971 (1971 for girls and 1995 for boys).
The name Heaven has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 98.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Heaven reached its peak popularity in 2006, achieving the 74.3% percentile (ranked #249) with 645 births per million. The name was most common in 2005, with 657 births per million (ranked 74.2% percentile). Despite a low point in 2015, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for girls. Currently, Heaven ranks #457 for girls (51.8% percentile) with 336 births per million, which is 51.1% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Heaven reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 1.9% percentile (ranked #906) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 12 births per million (ranked 1.9% percentile). Despite a peak around 2016, the name has seen a recent rise in popularity for boys. Currently, Heaven ranks #909 for boys (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 31.1% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Heaven".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Heaven is pronounced as HEH-vuhn, which has 2 syllables.
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