Given name
Bathsheba
“daughter of the oath”
Bathsheba is used as a given name. One Hebrew interpretation is “daughter of the oath.”
Original Hebrewבת שבע
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Hebrew interpretation is “daughter of the oath.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Hebrew.
How it developed
From Hebrew בַּת שֶׁבַע (bat shéva', “daughter of an oath”), built from Hebrew בַּת (bát, “daughter”) + שֶׁבַע (shéva, “oath”).
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The story
The name has a historical association with Nonconformist Christian naming traditions.
In the Bible
In the Bible, the name Bathsheba appears in 2 Samuel 11:3.
From biblical name research
Bathsheba through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 365
- 0 boys · 365 girls
- Most popular year
- 1977
- 18 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 2023. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 18 in 1977. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 388 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Bathsheba’s family of names
In English usage, Bathsheba has a short form in Sheba. In English usage, Bathsheba has a later derivative in BASSIN. Bathsheba has a related form in Batsheva.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Bathsheba has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its Hebrew roots to each of them.
Hebrewwhere Bathsheba comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 8
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 8
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 20
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Bathsheba
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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