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Sheba

Girls' name

Daughter + oath, through Bathsheba

Sheba has been given to 1,173 babies in the U.S. since 1916. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1975, with 65 recorded.

Babies named Sheba, 2023

1 in 474,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sheba: meaning, origin, and history

Daughter + oath, through Bathsheba

Hebrew

What Sheba means

Sheba belongs to the name family reached through Sheba → Bathsheba. Its meaning is “daughter + oath”.

Origin, language, and formation

Sheba is used in English. Its origins include Hebrew.

Sheba comes through Biblical Hebrew שְׁבָא.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Bathsheba.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Sheba is pronounced /ˈʃiːbə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,173 girls were recorded with the name Sheba between 1916 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 65 in 1975; its best national rank was #1,559 in 1975.

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 Sheba?

Sheba had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 229,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
328,234 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sheba 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 2023 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 328,234 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sheba. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shebas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sheba was born before 1976 — so the typical Sheba is around 49 today.

Median birth year
1976
About 49 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
30.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
7.2%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,127
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1970s — 30.5% of all recorded uses (358).

Is Sheba 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1975 (65)
Years since peak
50
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,559
1975

Spellings of Sheba

Sheba is not the most common spelling — Sheila is, with 31.8% against Sheba's 0.16%.

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 Sheba is used

Across 1910–2025, Sheba was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 442,205 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 100,000
  2. 2New York1 in 100,000
  3. 3California1 in —
  4. 4Florida1 in —
  5. 5Georgia1 in —
  6. 6Illinois1 in —
  7. 7North Carolina1 in —
  8. 8Ohio1 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. Sheba has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sheba around the world

Where Sheba 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
    2000–2010
    #4,012
    in 2010
  • France
    1989–1989
    #3,474
    in 1989
  • South Australia
    1981–2005
    #775
    in 2005

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Sheba by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#1,559
1975
Peak year
1975
65 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
1,173
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Sheba

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

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Sibling names for Sheba

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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