Zehava
#8,849 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Zehava has been given to 151 babies in the U.S. since 1988. In 2025 it ranked #8,849 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 12 recorded.
Babies named Zehava, 2025
1 in 276,000
Zehava over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Zehava?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 276,000
- 12 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 134,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #8,849
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 191,493 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Zehava sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zehava. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Zehavas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Zehava was born before 2016 — so the typical Zehava is around 9 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 40.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 86.1%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 151
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 40.4% of all recorded uses (61).
Is Zehava 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
- +1,403
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +3,268
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +2,000
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.20×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (12)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 22.9% average annual change
Spellings of Zehava
Zehava is not the most common spelling — Zahara is, with 36.1% against Zehava's 1.5%.
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 Zehava is used
Across 1910–2025, Zehava was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 316,978 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1New Jersey1 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. Zehava has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Zehava by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Zehava
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Zehava
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.