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Elisheva

#1,983 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Elizabeth

Elisheva has been given to 2,459 babies in the U.S. since 1965. In 2025 it ranked #1,983 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 97 recorded.

Babies named Elisheva, 2025

1 in 34,200

Elisheva 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Elisheva: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Elizabeth

Hebrew

What Elisheva means

Elisheva is a form of Elizabeth.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Elisheva → Elizabeth. The family’s meaning is “my God is an oath”, recorded in English with the source elements ʔĕlîšeḇaʕ.

Origin, language, and formation

Elisheva is used in English. Its origins include Hebrew.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Elizabeth and Elisheba.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,459 girls were recorded with the name Elisheva between 1965 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 97 in 2025; its best national rank was #1,983 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,177 in 2020 to #1,983 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,362 in 2015 to #1,983 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 Elisheva?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 34,200
97 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 16,600
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,983
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
23,691 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Elisheva 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 23,691 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Elisheva. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Elishevas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Elisheva was born before 2007 — so the typical Elisheva is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
25.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
64.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,459
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 25.7% of all recorded uses (632).

Is Elisheva 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
+388
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+194
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+379
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.24×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (97)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,983
2025

Spellings of Elisheva

Elisheva is not the most common spelling — Elisha is, with 82.5% against Elisheva's 14.1%.

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 Elisheva is used

Across 1910–2025, Elisheva was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 11,111 girls, against 1 in 37,855 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

09 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 11,111
  2. 2New York1 in 12,500
  3. 3Florida1 in 100,000
  4. 4Maryland1 in 100,000
  5. 5California1 in —
  6. 6Illinois1 in —
  7. 7Texas1 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. Elisheva has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Elisheva around the world

Where Elisheva 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
    #2,440
    in 2025
  • France
    1985–2025
    #2,523
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1993–2020
    #2,355
    in 2020

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Elisheva

People whose public names include Elisheva, 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.

Elisheva in other languages

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

ElizabethYelizavetaElischewa

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

Elisheva by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,983
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 194
Best rank ever
#1,983
2025
Peak year
2025
97 that year
First recorded
1965
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,459
Count in 2025
97

Names similar to Elisheva

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

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Names with a curve like Elisheva

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

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Sibling names for Elisheva

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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