Heaven is a modern name, that originated from the English word heaven. It developed from Old English heofon for ‘sky, firmament’.
Heaven is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
The name Heaven isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Heaven ranks 342. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 5 were named Heaven. In the entire USA, approximately 26,703 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Heaven. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
Heaven is a modern name, that originated from the English word heaven. It developed from Old English heofon for ‘sky, firmament’.
Nevaeh,... Heaven spelled backwards, is also a popular modern name.
Heaven is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Heaven cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #230 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2005. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Heaven, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their daughter. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Heaven seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Heaven was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
654 babies were named Heaven in 2022 - that's 1 in 234,916 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Heaven ranked 441 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter H is quite rare as a first letter for girls' names: only 1.7% of all common girls' names in the US begin with H. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.
With six letters, the name Heaven is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 1.7% of all girls' names begin with an H, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Interesting detail: of all the names that begin with an H, Helen is the most common.
If your name is Heaven and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Heaven, you can simply say:
Hat
Elephant
Apple
Violin
Elephant
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Heaven
Heaven
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Heaven sounds like this: