Heaven

What Heaven means

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

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #543 vs #1,133 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Heaven?

US: Falling: down from #346 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #2328 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2005, when 1,334 girls got the name (#245 that year). First in the US records in 1971.

How common

• About 1 in 2,891 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 8,734 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 2,982 baby girls in Scotland 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 MS (1.57 per 1,000 girls), WV (1.38 per 1,000 girls), LA (1.28 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Heaven is #543 in the US and #1133 in England & Wales (2025).

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

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 97.7% of US babies named Heaven were girls.

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

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Heavyn22 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 Heaven

Girls

• Trinity#428Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #129 in 2015, #428 in 2025
• Grace#38From the word “grace”^*
• Lily#18Diminutive of Lilian, possibly meaning “lily”^*
• Faith#254Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #90 in 2015, #254 in 2025
• Autumn#88Editor’s note Down from #69 in 2015 to #88 in 2025 in the US
• Audrey#86“noble + strength”^*

For a brother

• Angel#67Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #67 vs #1,307 in 2025
• Deacon#561Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1971, with 15 babies
• Tate#193Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #420 in 2015, #193 in 2025
• Rowan#59“little red one”^*
• Alden#598“old + friend”^*
• Chance#442Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1996, with 2,243 babies; 711 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under English, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Heaven’s. Rank is US 2025.