Haven

What Haven means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Haven yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #190 vs #1,512 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Haven?

US: Rising: up from #328 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #3615 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 1,642 girls got the name (#190 that year). First in the US records in 1920.

How common

• About 1 in 979 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 12,664 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in WY (6.17 per 1,000 girls), SD (4.59 per 1,000 girls), HI (4.2 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Haven is #190 in the US and #1512 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 92.2% of US babies named Haven were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Hayven67 US
• Havyn61 US
• Haevyn17 US
• Haiven10 US
• Haivyn9 US
• Haeven8 US
• Havynn6 US
• Hevyn5 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Haven

Girls

• Parker#106From a surname for “a gamekeeper”^*
• Willow#44From the word “willow”^*
• Ellie#24Editor’s note Up from #48 in 2015 to #24 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 260 US girls in the 2025 records
• Elianna#218Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #598 in 2015, #218 in 2025
• Talia#265Editor’s note Steady in the US: #285 in 2015 and #265 in 2025
• Saylor#217“dancer, acrobat”^*

For a brother

• Jett#169Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #169 vs #452 in 2025
• Liam#1Form of William, meaning “will + helmet”^*
• Mateo#8Same root as Matthew, meaning “gift of the Lord”^*
• Amari#185“Does the given name have different origins?”^*
• Ronan#247Irish, meaning “little seal”^*
• Declan#139Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #139 vs #372 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Haven’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.