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Chava

#1,737 in 2025Girls' name

To live, through חַוָּה

Chava has been given to 3,552 babies in the U.S. since 1951. In 2025 it ranked #1,737 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 160 recorded.

Babies named Chava, 2025

1 in 28,300

Chava over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Chava: meaning, origin, and history

To live, through חַוָּה

Hebrew

What Chava means

Chava belongs to the name family reached through Chava → חַוָּה. Its meaning is “to live”.

Origin, language, and formation

Chava is used in English. Its origins include Hebrew.

Chava comes through Hebrew חַוָּה.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include חַוָּה.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,552 girls were recorded with the name Chava between 1951 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 160 in 2024; its best national rank was #1,399 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,795 in 2020 to #1,737 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,062 in 2015 to #1,737 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Chava?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 28,300
117 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 13,700
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,737
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
19,641 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Chava sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5002%

Put another way: gather 19,641 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Chava. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Chavas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Chava was born before 2009 — so the typical Chava is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
27.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
67.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,552
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 27.3% of all recorded uses (969).

Is Chava rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−338
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+58
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+325
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.23×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
73.1%
Peak was 2024 (160)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,399
2024

Spellings of Chava

Chava is not the most common spelling — Ava is, with 38.7% against Chava's 0.40%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Chava is used

Across 1910–2025, Chava was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 5,263 girls, against 1 in 14,379 across all states with data. It was least common in Illinois (1 in —).

019 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 5,263
  2. 2New York1 in 6,250
  3. 3California1 in —
  4. 4Illinois1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Chava has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Chava around the world

Where Chava ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #1,892
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2022
    #3,098
    in 2022

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Chava

People whose public names include Chava, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Chava in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Chava. Linked forms have their own page here.

EvaEveEwaHavaÈveÉva

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Chava by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,737
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 58
Best rank ever
#1,399
2024
Peak year
2024
160 that year
First recorded
1951
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,552
Count in 2025
117

Names similar to Chava

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Chava

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Chava, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Chava

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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