Heaven

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Heaven: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Heaven: Recorded every year since 1997, its highest recorded position is #718, reached in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
38times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#718highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1997–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1997	#1958
1998	#2407
1999	#2189
2000	#1831
2001	#2023
2002	#1784
2003	#3594
2004	#2112
2005	#2084
2006	#2137
2007	#1965
2008	#3005
2009	#1752
2010	#1815
2011	#2150
2012	#2215
2013	#2460
2014	#2058
2015	#2328
2016	#2233
2017	#1733
2018	#1393
2019	#1497
2020	#1846
2021	#1402
2022	#1326
2023	#1288
2024	#1302

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1997 to 2024.

In 2023: #727 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1288 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1997–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1997
First recorded at #1958 among girls in England and Wales in 1997 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2023–2025
Highest recorded position: #718 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025 (recorded 2023–2025).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #718 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Heaven appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 28 years beginning in 1997, and has registered 371 births with the name.

Heaven across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Heaven's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#1958 (1997)	#1288 (2023)	#1302 (2024)	28 of 28	371 (1997–2024)	25 (2023)
England and Wales · Boys	#3208 (2005)	#3112 (2023)	#3688 (2024)	8 of 20	35 (2005–2024)	6 (2023)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#727 (2023)	#718 (2025)	#718 (2025)	2 of 3	8 (2023–2025)	4 (2023)

Heaven by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Heaven in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	21	3 of 10	7
2000s	94	10 of 10	9
2010s	145	10 of 10	15
2020sbusiest	111	5 of 10	22

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 22 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Heaven appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1997 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #718 in Republic of Ireland in 2025.

Heaven's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#1302	25	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#3688	5	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1288	25	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#3112	6	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1326	24	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#3449	5	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1402	22	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1846	15	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1497	20	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1393	23	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1733	17	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2233	12	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#4810	3	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2328	11	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#3373	5	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#2058	13	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#2460	10	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#2215	12	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#4805	3	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2150	12	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1815	15	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#3865	4	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1752	15	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#3005	7	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1965	12	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#2137	10	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#2084	10	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#3208	4	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2112	9	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#3594	4	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1784	10	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#2023	8	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1831	9	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#2189	7	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#2407	6	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1958	8	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#718	4	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#727	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1997 and 2025, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #718, first reached in 2025.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 25 births, registered in England and Wales in 2023.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2023, and 26 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Heath · #87, 31y
Heather · #15, 74y
Heavenly · #1457, 15y
Heba · #885, 30y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Dallas · #718, 29y
Farida · #718, 30y
Haneen · #718, 30y
Ishika · #718, 26y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Arbaaz · #718, 20y
Dallas · #718, 29y
Farida · #718, 30y
Haneen · #718, 30y

Heaven was ranked #718 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 2025. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Heaven and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Heaven without appearing here.

Heaven moved ahead of

Brittany Compare
In 2009 they stood at #3005 and #2487 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #1815 and #4688.
Finlay Compare
In 2008 they stood at #3005 and #3005 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #1752 and #4564.
Belinda Compare
In 2013 they stood at #2460 and #2062 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #2058 and #4684.
Denise Compare
In 2012 they stood at #2215 and #1720 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #2460 and #4739.

Moved ahead of Heaven

Aria Compare
In 2002 they stood at #1784 and #2540 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2003 that had become #3594 and #1472.
Gustav Compare
In 2009 they stood at #3208 and #3849 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2010 that had become #3865 and #2629.
Blake Compare
In 2014 they stood at #2058 and #2203 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #2328 and #1240.
Beau Compare
In 2000 they stood at #1831 and #3247 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #2023 and #1107.

Moved the opposite way to Heaven

Josefine Compare
Between 1998 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Heaven went from #2407 to #1288 while Josefine went from #3848 to #5687.

Moved the same way as Heaven

Dylan Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Heaven went from #2407 to #1302 and Dylan from #3848 to #1743.
Marilyn Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Heaven went from #2407 to #1302 and Marilyn from #2701 to #1541.
Frida Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Heaven went from #2189 to #1302 and Frida from #3900 to #811.
Meabh Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Heaven went from #2189 to #1302 and Meabh from #3225 to #952.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1997 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #718 in Republic of Ireland in 2025. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Heaven

Heaven at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Heaven across 3 official records

Heaven by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Heaven appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Heaven

Heaven and the names beside it

Heaven moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Heaven

Moved the opposite way to Heaven

Moved the same way as Heaven

Heaven at a glance

Heaven across 3 official records

Heaven by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Heaven appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Heaven

Heaven and the names beside it

Heaven moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Heaven

Moved the opposite way to Heaven

Moved the same way as Heaven