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Havilah

#3,667 in 2025Girls' name

Possibly to dance, to circle, to twist

Havilah has been given to 699 babies in the U.S. since 1975. In 2025 it ranked #3,667 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 41 recorded.

Babies named Havilah, 2025

1 in 80,900

Havilah over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Havilah: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly to dance, to circle, to twist

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Havilah means

Havilah may mean “to dance, to circle, to twist”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 699 girls were recorded with the name Havilah between 1975 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 41 in 2025; its best national rank was #3,667 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,202 in 2020 to #3,667 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,536 in 2015 to #3,667 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.

How common is Havilah?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 80,900
41 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 39,200
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,667
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
56,047 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Havilah 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 56,047 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Havilah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Havilahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Havilah was born before 2012 — so the typical Havilah is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
31.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
70.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
699
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2010s — 31.6% of all recorded uses (221).

Is Havilah 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
+481
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+535
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,869
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.71×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (41)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,667
2025

Spellings of Havilah

Havilah is not the most common spelling — Lailah is, with 17.8% against Havilah's 1.8%.

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 Havilah is used

Across 1910–2025, Havilah was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,393,311 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 in —
  4. 4Washington1 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. Havilah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Havilah around the world

Where Havilah 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
    2025–2025
    #2,788
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2018–2021
    #3,354
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    2012–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Havilah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,667
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 535
Best rank ever
#3,667
2025
Peak year
2025
41 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
699
Count in 2025
41

Names similar to Havilah

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

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Sibling names for Havilah

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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