Havilah
Feminine
Havilah is a place in the second chapter of Genesis — a land the river out of Eden flows around, where there is gold, and the gold of that land is good.
How old is the name Havilah?
Havilah first appears in US birth records in 1975 — 50 years ago. The typical Havilah alive today was born around 2012, making them about 13 years old. About 700 people named Havilah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Havilah most popular?
Havilah peaked in 2025, reaching #3645 nationally. Today it ranks #3645, exactly where it peaked. See the whole 2025 chart.
Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Havilah
Ours, offered as ours. Havilah appears in one of the strangest passages in Genesis: four rivers flow out of Eden, and the text stops to tell you that the first of them winds around a land where there is gold, and that the gold there is good, and that there is bdellium and onyx stone. Nobody knows where it was. That combination — a precise inventory of a place nobody can find — is what gives the name its particular quality, and it is more interesting than any etymology.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The place name's derivation is not established. A connection to a Hebrew root for sand or for a circle has been proposed, and the location itself is unidentified — Arabia, the Horn of Africa and India have all been suggested. No reading is settled.
Pronouncing Havilah
HAV-ih-lah
Three syllables, first stressed. Hebrew gives kha-vee-LAH, with a throaty opening.
Nicknames for Havilah
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1975
- Most girls named
- 202541 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3645reached in 2025
- Change vs 2024
- +17.1%41 in 2025, from 35
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Havilah in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Chavilah in Hebrew — same name
- Havila in Spanish — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Florida.
Havilahs among us
people named Havilah are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 39,202 born in 2025 was named Havilah
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Sahra test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Havilah's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Sahra climbed just as high around 1986, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Sahra's path sketches the road Havilah is walking now.
Havilah sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Havilah is headed
Havilah should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Havilah beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Havilah in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A documented biblical place name with a genuinely memorable passage attached.
- Seven letters and three syllables, manageable to write.
- It is entirely distinct from every other name in an American classroom.
- The meaning is genuinely unknown and the place itself has never been identified.
- Havilah, Havila and Chavilah are all in use and none is standard.
- It is unfamiliar enough that she will explain it often.
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Frequently asked
- How many Havilahs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Havilah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Havilah in 2025?
- Havilah ranks #3645 among US girl names in 2025, with 41 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Havilah?
- About 1 in every 39,202 US girls born in 2025 was named Havilah — 41 in all.
- Will my child share the name Havilah with classmates?
- Havilah will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Havilah
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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US figures from the Social Security Administration. 1880–2025. Data & methodology
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