Elisheva is from the Hebrew Elīšeḇaʿ (אֱלִישֶׁבַע — God is my oath). A modern American baby name in the broader Hebrew-Jewish heritage aesthetic. Elisheva is the foundational Hebrew original of Elizabeth — central to traditional Jewish heritage. Elisheva bat Amminadav was the foundational wife of Aaron (Moses's elder brother + foundational first High Priest of Israel) + mother of the foundational Aaronic priesthood (Nadab + Abihu + Eleazar + Ithamar) — central to the foundational Hebrew Bible (Exodus 6:23). Foundational figure in the foundational Kohanim (Jewish priestly) lineage + central to traditional Jewish daily liturgy + Yom Kippur foundational service. Foundational modern Hebrew feminine name reflecting traditional Jewish heritage + the foundational Modern Hebrew revival (Eliezer Ben-Yehuda's foundational Hebrew language renaissance).
Featured throughout Hebrew heritage.
Elisheva 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.
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In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Elisheva reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.