Heaven
given name · Latin script
Meaning: for HAVEN; first attested Richard Hevyn 1279 RH (C)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/hɛvən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Heaven is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 16K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 33K
- QAQatar≈1 in 110K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 302 (measured from records)
- 1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
20,769 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
for HAVEN; first attested Richard Hevyn 1279 RH (C)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Heaven, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Heaven counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 20,769 | 1 in 16K | 20K | Heaven | 302 |
| CN China | ≈4,800 est. | ≈1 in 291K | — | Heaven | 12 |
| PH Philippines | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 197K | — | Heaven | 33 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 510K | — | Heaven | 22 |
| SE Sweden | 313 | 1 in 33K | 313 | — | 11 |
| NL Netherlands | 129 | 1 in 134K | 113 | Heaven | 10 |
| QA Qatar | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 110K | — | Heaven | 3 |
| BH Bahrain | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 119K | — | Heaven | 2 |
20,769 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Heaven is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Anglicized form of Gaelic 6 hEimhi'n ‘descendant of Eirnhm', possibly a diminutive of eimh ‘swift’, ‘prompt’, ‘ready’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
variant of Evan, with the addition of an inorganic initial H-.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, The sky, specifically:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Akan, and earth; fam* u^ nsu ani, hi/ land and by sea; efi ue soro besi ne fan' dem bi nni no ho, from the head to the feet, from head to foot, from (op to toe, there is no blemish in him; cf. 2 Sam. 14,25. — iitama no mn tew abien fi soro de-besii fam', the veil was rent in ttvo from the top tothebottmn. Mat.27f51. — Red. fanf-fam', adv, very low
as a wordDictionary of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Chwee, Twi)
In enm, rare form of hevene
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Heaven Peralejob. 1999PHFilipino actress (born 1999)
- Heaven Garciab. 2000USAmerican boxer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 48 sources across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 707 | #34,525 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 625 | #35,912 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 574 | #36,716 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Heaven mean, and where does it come from?
- for HAVEN; first attested Richard Hevyn 1279 RH (C) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- Is Heaven a male or female name?
- Heaven is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- How do you pronounce Heaven?
- A machine transcription gives /hɛvən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Heaven have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 21 thousand people named Heaven, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled heaven.
- Where is Heaven most common?
- Heaven is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 16 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Heaven?
- In the United States, the national register counted 20,769 people named Heaven in 2020, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Heaven?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/heavenThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Heaven”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.