Bathsheba
About Bathsheba
Popular with the Puritans, this name of the shrewd and beautiful wife of King David and mother of King Solomon could be a bit of a load for a modern girl to carry.
Bathsheba is the name of the central character in the Thomas Hardy novel Far from the Madding Crowd and there's a Harry Potter character named Bathsheba Babbling, Ancient Runes professor at Hogwarts.
Pronounced bath-SHEE-buh.
As of October 2026, Bathsheba ranked #13700 in US births in 2023 SSA, peaked at #2934 in 1953.
Editor: Pamela Redmond
Sources: US popularity data is from the Social Security Administration. Meanings and origins are from Nameberry's name references.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | — | 0 | 0 |
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Bathsheba on lists
Famous Bathshebas
- Bathsheba
Biblical wife of David and mother of Solomon
- Bathsheba Doran
British playwright and TV writer
- Bathsheba Garnett
American actress
- Bathsheba Grossman
American sculptor
- Bathsheba Wilson Bigler Smith
American Mormon leader and suffragist
- Bathsheba Bowers
American Quaker author and preacher
- Bathsheba Nell "Sheba" Crocker
U.S. diplomat
Bathsheba in pop culture
- Bathsheba Everdene
character in "Far from the Madding Crowd" by Thomas Hardy
- Bathsheba "Sheba" Hart
character in "Notes on Scandal"
- Prof. Bathsheda Babblings
character in the "Harry Potter" series
- Bathsheba
character in "The Conjuring"
- Eurydice Colette Clytemnestra Dido Bathsheba Rabelais Patricia Cocteau "Patsy" Stone
character in "Absolutely Fabulous"