Entry № 4125 · English origin

Haven Haven — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ HAY-vun /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Place of safety (Jessica Alba's daughter; Syfy series)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (English)

A name that means "place of safety (jessica alba's daughter; syfy series)".

Haven is from the Old English hæfen — harbor, port, place of refuge. A top-500 US baby name since 2009. Haven Hudson Hawthorne — modern celebrity baby.

Place of safety.

The name in its native script.

Haven
Transliteration
Haven
Pronunciation
/ ˈheɪ.vən /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Haven stands.

Haven 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.

Havens before her.

Real people
Haven Alba Warren
Jessica Alba's daughter.
born 2011
In fiction
Haven
Syfy supernatural series.
2010

Names connected to Haven.

The number behind Haven.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Haven reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.