Shalva
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- shal-VAH
- Origin
- Hebrew
- US rank, 2025
- #7,883 for girls
Shalva is a girls' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “tranquillity, serenity”. In 2025 it ranked 7,883rd for girls in the US (13 babies).
What does Shalva mean?
Hebrew
“tranquillity, serenity”
Shalva is a modern Hebrew word for 'calm' or 'serenity'; in Georgia, Shalva is a traditional boy's name.
Is Shalva a girl's or a boy's name?
Shalva is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 13 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Shalva in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #7,883among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 13about 1 in 120,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 13 girls in the US were named Shalva, making it the 7,883rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 11,085th. It first appears in the records in 2002.
2025 had the most girls named Shalva of any year since it first appeared, in 2002.
Half of all the girls named Shalva in the US since 1880 were born between 2010 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
Shalva in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #7,883 |
| 2024 | 11 | #8,941 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,307 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,377 |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,246 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,085 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,350 |
| 2018 | 6 | #13,788 |
| 2017 | 7 | #12,709 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,408 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,477 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,370 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,240 |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,236 |
| 2008 | 5 | #17,498 |
| 2007 | 5 | #17,630 |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,601 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,181 |
Names like Shalva
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Prisha Adhara Saanvi Navi Aadhya Arya Anvika Viha Aarna Aavya Yashna Nava
More Hebrew names
Noah Isabella Elijah James Jack Mia Ava Jude Ezra Benjamin Isaac Jacob Ethan Daniel Samuel Elias
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Shalva: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/shalva, updated 20 October 2026.