Entry № 9539 · Hebrew origin

Sheba Sheba — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SHEE-bah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"Queen of Sheba (biblical + Ethiopian Makeda)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Hebrew)

A name that means "queen of sheba (biblical + ethiopian makeda)".

Sheba is from the Hebrew Sheba (שְׁבָא — promise / oath). The Queen of Sheba is one of the most- biblical-historical female figures — visiting King Solomon in Jerusalem (1 Kings 10, 2 Chronicles 9) — a episode in Jewish, Christian, Islamic (as Bilqis in the Quran), and Ethiopian religious traditions. In Ethiopian tradition she is Queen Makeda (c.

Promise / oath (Hebrew).

The name in its native script.

שְׁבָא
Transliteration
Sheba
Pronunciation
/ ˈʃiː.bə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sheba stands.

Sheba 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.

Shebas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Queen of Sheba
Biblical queen + Ethiopian Makeda.

Names connected to Sheba.

The number behind Sheba.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sheba reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.