Entry № 1293 · Hebrew origin

Batsheva Batsheva — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ baht-SHEH-vah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"Daughter of the oath (biblical + Batsheva Dance Company Israel)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Hebrew)

A name that means "daughter of the oath (biblical + batsheva dance company israel)".

Batsheva is from the Hebrew bat (daughter) + sheva (oath/seven) — daughter of the oath. Bathsheba (c. 1000 BCE) was the biblical wife of King David and mother of King Solomon (2 Samuel 11-12, 1 Kings 1-2) — one of the queen mothers in biblical history. The Batsheva Dance Company (founded 1964 by Bethsabée de Rothschild and Martha Graham) is widely considered Israel's contemporary dance company — led by Ohad Naharin since 1990. figure in modern Israeli cultural identity.

Daughter of the oath (Hebrew).

The name in its native script.

בַּת שֶׁבַע
Transliteration
Bat Sheva
Pronunciation
/ bɑːtˈʃɛ.və /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Batsheva stands.

Batsheva does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Batshevas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Bathsheba
Biblical wife of King David.

Names connected to Batsheva.

The number behind Batsheva.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Batsheva reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.