Meaning not yet researched.
Heath: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 253 in 2025. Its best rank was #181 in 1974.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #181 in 1974; #932 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Heath in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#932 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1974, at #181.
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Heath: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 253 boys in 2025. Peak: #181 in 1974 · most boys in one year: 1,249 (1974).
In 2025, 253 US boys were named Heath, making it the 932nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 80 places from #852 in 2024. That is 32 fewer than the 285 boys named Heath in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #181, reached in 1974. That year also had the most boys given the name: 1,249. For comparison, it was #834 in 2015 and #3,905 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Heath in 103 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1913 with 9 babies. In all, 29,704 US babies have been given the name, 0.6% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 10,907 babies named Heath.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,417 US boys were named Heath; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 285. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,751 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Heath ranked highest in Missouri in 2025, at #495 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Heith, Hyatt and Heathe are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Heith (572), Hyatt (456), Heathe (75), Hiatt (34), Het (34), Heet (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Heath in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 32 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Missouri | 12 | #495 | #771 |
| Utah | 8 | #532 | #714 |
| Tennessee | 13 | #563 | #534 |
| Wisconsin | 8 | #585 | #629 |
| Pennsylvania | 16 | #590 | #478 |
| Kansas | 5 | #628 | — |
| Arizona | 10 | #650 | #824 |
| Oregon | 5 | #655 | — |
| Washington | 9 | #704 | #798 |
| Minnesota | 6 | #743 | #838 |
| North Carolina | 10 | #840 | #790 |
| Georgia | 10 | #873 | #753 |
| Illinois | 8 | #969 | #1,236 |
| California | 23 | #975 | #1,062 |
| Florida | 14 | #975 | #851 |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,032 | #1,033 |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,150 | #638 |
| New York | 9 | #1,241 | #1,186 |
| Texas | 11 | #1,594 | #909 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 253 | #932 |
| 2024 | — | — | 285 | #852 |
| 2023 | — | — | 206 | #1,056 |
| 2022 | — | — | 280 | #862 |
| 2021 | — | — | 234 | #960 |
| 2020 | — | — | 215 | #992 |
| 2019 | — | — | 227 | #946 |
| 2018 | — | — | 224 | #937 |
| 2017 | — | — | 242 | #890 |
| 2016 | — | — | 251 | #874 |
| 2015 | — | — | 270 | #834 |
| 2014 | — | — | 231 | #924 |
| 2013 | — | — | 249 | #858 |
| 2012 | — | — | 244 | #865 |
| 2011 | — | — | 250 | #853 |
| 2010 | — | — | 295 | #761 |
| 2009 | — | — | 356 | #681 |
| 2008 | — | — | 324 | #717 |
| 2007 | — | — | 221 | #903 |
| 2006 | — | — | 267 | #778 |
| 2005 | — | — | 242 | #797 |
| 2004 | 5 | #17,070 | 288 | #690 |
| 2003 | — | — | 255 | #721 |
| 2002 | — | — | 275 | #674 |
| 2001 | — | — | 216 | #783 |
| 2000 | — | — | 187 | #854 |
| 1999 | — | — | 206 | #772 |
| 1998 | — | — | 268 | #653 |
| 1997 | — | — | 259 | #642 |
| 1996 | — | — | 261 | #643 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,233 | 293 | #600 |
| 1994 | — | — | 372 | #527 |
| 1993 | — | — | 363 | #538 |
| 1992 | — | — | 350 | #545 |
| 1991 | — | — | 390 | #503 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,761 | 457 | #461 |
| 1989 | — | — | 535 | #402 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,609 | 552 | #365 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,259 | 576 | #345 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,564 | 566 | #338 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,817 | 593 | #332 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,632 | 640 | #305 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,339 | 652 | #302 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,085 | 709 | #289 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,492 | 790 | #271 |
| 1980 | 9 | #6,979 | 906 | #247 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,548 | 998 | #228 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,181 | 1,021 | #211 |
| 1977 | 10 | #6,033 | 1,076 | #207 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,342 | 1,151 | #195 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,347 | 1,204 | #188 |
| 1974 | 15 | #4,098 | 1,249 | #181 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,310 | 1,072 | #202 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,639 | 1,234 | #190 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,251 | 1,053 | #225 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,382 | 756 | #278 |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,930 | 524 | #345 |
| 1968 | — | — | 548 | #326 |
| 1967 | — | — | 516 | #329 |
| 1966 | — | — | 433 | #361 |
| 1965 | — | — | 37 | #1,260 |
| 1964 | — | — | 10 | #2,732 |
| 1963 | — | — | 6 | #3,798 |
| 1962 | — | — | 10 | #2,743 |
| 1961 | — | — | 6 | #3,802 |
| 1960 | — | — | 11 | #2,598 |
| 1959 | — | — | 7 | #3,411 |
| 1958 | — | — | 7 | #3,391 |
| 1955 | — | — | 10 | #2,657 |
| 1953 | — | — | 6 | #3,586 |
| 1952 | — | — | 10 | #2,594 |
| 1951 | — | — | 7 | #3,192 |
| 1950 | — | — | 5 | #3,905 |
| 1949 | — | — | 7 | #3,133 |
| 1948 | — | — | 10 | #2,513 |
| 1946 | — | — | 5 | #3,732 |
| 1945 | — | — | 5 | #3,510 |
| 1944 | — | — | 8 | #2,729 |
| 1943 | — | — | 7 | #3,075 |
| 1942 | — | — | 9 | #2,600 |
| 1941 | — | — | 5 | #3,733 |
| 1940 | — | — | 7 | #2,986 |
| 1937 | — | — | 5 | #3,756 |
| 1936 | — | — | 7 | #3,003 |
| 1935 | — | — | 5 | #3,885 |
| 1934 | — | — | 5 | #3,907 |
| 1933 | — | — | 5 | #3,879 |
| 1932 | — | — | 5 | #4,001 |
| 1930 | — | — | 8 | #3,140 |
| 1929 | — | — | 5 | #4,237 |
| 1927 | — | — | 7 | #3,612 |
| 1926 | — | — | 7 | #3,531 |
| 1925 | — | — | 6 | #3,930 |
| 1924 | — | — | 7 | #3,646 |
| 1923 | — | — | 6 | #4,001 |
| 1922 | — | — | 13 | #2,401 |
| 1921 | — | — | 13 | #2,424 |
| 1920 | — | — | 19 | #1,844 |
| 1918 | — | — | 8 | #3,230 |
| 1917 | — | — | 14 | #2,124 |
| 1916 | — | — | 8 | #3,035 |
| 1915 | — | — | 6 | #3,588 |
| 1913 | — | — | 9 | #2,004 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).