Meaning not yet researched.
Heather: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 177 in 2025. Its best rank was #3 in 1975.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #3 in 1975; #1,264 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Heather in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,264 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1975, at #3.
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Heather: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 177 girls in 2025. Peak: #3 in 1975 · most girls in one year: 24,301 (1975).
In 2025, 177 US girls were named Heather, making it the 1,264th most common girls’ name of the year, up 81 places from #1,345 in 2024. That is 7 more than the 170 girls named Heather in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #3, reached in 1975. That year also had the most girls given the name: 24,301. For comparison, it was #965 in 2015 and #461 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Heather in 102 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1914 with 8 babies. In all, 527,387 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 204,534 babies named Heather.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,894 US girls were named Heather; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 275. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,081 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Heather ranked highest in Mississippi in 2025, at #566 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Hether, Heater and Heahter are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Hetty.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Hether (364), Heater (53), Heahter (14), Heathyr (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.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 38 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 5 | #566 | — |
| Oklahoma | 6 | #649 | — |
| Utah | 5 | #748 | #651 |
| Missouri | 6 | #854 | #880 |
| Indiana | 7 | #855 | #728 |
| Virginia | 8 | #882 | #874 |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #956 | #899 |
| Washington | 6 | #969 | #1,010 |
| California | 23 | #1,125 | #1,184 |
| Florida | 10 | #1,363 | #1,221 |
| New York | 9 | #1,447 | #581 |
| Texas | 16 | #1,490 | #770 |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,545 | #848 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 177 | #1,264 | — | — |
| 2024 | 170 | #1,345 | — | — |
| 2023 | 171 | #1,326 | — | — |
| 2022 | 181 | #1,304 | — | — |
| 2021 | 173 | #1,307 | — | — |
| 2020 | 151 | #1,443 | — | — |
| 2019 | 162 | #1,387 | — | — |
| 2018 | 211 | #1,152 | — | — |
| 2017 | 223 | #1,126 | — | — |
| 2016 | 275 | #977 | — | — |
| 2015 | 281 | #965 | — | — |
| 2014 | 331 | #837 | — | — |
| 2013 | 316 | #835 | — | — |
| 2012 | 330 | #812 | — | — |
| 2011 | 391 | #711 | — | — |
| 2010 | 421 | #682 | — | — |
| 2009 | 555 | #548 | — | — |
| 2008 | 654 | #484 | — | — |
| 2007 | 799 | #408 | 5 | #13,045 |
| 2006 | 974 | #339 | — | — |
| 2005 | 1,067 | #300 | — | — |
| 2004 | 1,304 | #244 | — | — |
| 2003 | 1,617 | #206 | — | — |
| 2002 | 2,068 | #159 | — | — |
| 2001 | 2,274 | #146 | — | — |
| 2000 | 2,684 | #125 | — | — |
| 1999 | 2,887 | #112 | 6 | #9,126 |
| 1998 | 3,397 | #99 | 7 | #7,887 |
| 1997 | 3,767 | #90 | 5 | #9,812 |
| 1996 | 4,759 | #71 | 9 | #6,176 |
| 1995 | 6,032 | #54 | 15 | #4,128 |
| 1994 | 7,033 | #44 | 7 | #7,252 |
| 1993 | 8,103 | #38 | 17 | #3,720 |
| 1992 | 9,725 | #31 | 16 | #3,816 |
| 1991 | 11,703 | #23 | 25 | #2,705 |
| 1990 | 14,220 | #19 | 24 | #2,730 |
| 1989 | 16,248 | #15 | 59 | #1,427 |
| 1988 | 18,033 | #14 | 58 | #1,362 |
| 1987 | 18,982 | #9 | 62 | #1,241 |
| 1986 | 19,790 | #9 | 65 | #1,178 |
| 1985 | 21,151 | #8 | 70 | #1,113 |
| 1984 | 21,489 | #9 | 79 | #1,004 |
| 1983 | 20,747 | #9 | 70 | #1,063 |
| 1982 | 17,493 | #12 | 46 | #1,402 |
| 1981 | 17,946 | #10 | 49 | #1,347 |
| 1980 | 19,973 | #6 | 77 | #1,032 |
| 1979 | 20,834 | #7 | 74 | #1,031 |
| 1978 | 22,270 | #5 | 71 | #1,035 |
| 1977 | 23,773 | #5 | 75 | #995 |
| 1976 | 24,192 | #4 | 82 | #924 |
| 1975 | 24,301 | #3 | 65 | #1,024 |
| 1974 | 23,179 | #4 | 77 | #930 |
| 1973 | 19,347 | #8 | 47 | #1,210 |
| 1972 | 16,320 | #9 | 58 | #1,065 |
| 1971 | 15,017 | #12 | 40 | #1,339 |
| 1970 | 14,669 | #19 | 43 | #1,270 |
| 1969 | 10,069 | #34 | 27 | #1,581 |
| 1968 | 5,502 | #62 | 10 | #2,814 |
| 1967 | 3,904 | #87 | 10 | #2,670 |
| 1966 | 2,897 | #125 | 8 | #3,090 |
| 1965 | 2,498 | #150 | 7 | #3,375 |
| 1964 | 2,386 | #160 | 5 | #4,282 |
| 1963 | 2,090 | #183 | — | — |
| 1962 | 1,283 | #247 | 7 | #3,439 |
| 1961 | 1,105 | #276 | — | — |
| 1960 | 971 | #298 | — | — |
| 1959 | 911 | #302 | — | — |
| 1958 | 731 | #344 | — | — |
| 1957 | 663 | #354 | — | — |
| 1956 | 662 | #342 | — | — |
| 1955 | 616 | #347 | — | — |
| 1954 | 541 | #375 | — | — |
| 1953 | 427 | #419 | — | — |
| 1952 | 381 | #440 | — | — |
| 1951 | 308 | #473 | — | — |
| 1950 | 310 | #461 | — | — |
| 1949 | 249 | #519 | — | — |
| 1948 | 215 | #568 | — | — |
| 1947 | 272 | #499 | — | — |
| 1946 | 237 | #512 | — | — |
| 1945 | 175 | #554 | — | — |
| 1944 | 131 | #645 | — | — |
| 1943 | 166 | #585 | — | — |
| 1942 | 159 | #587 | — | — |
| 1941 | 131 | #617 | — | — |
| 1940 | 106 | #673 | — | — |
| 1939 | 94 | #701 | — | — |
| 1938 | 76 | #808 | — | — |
| 1937 | 52 | #969 | — | — |
| 1936 | 52 | #959 | — | — |
| 1935 | 63 | #870 | — | — |
| 1934 | 41 | #1,109 | — | — |
| 1933 | 30 | #1,322 | — | — |
| 1932 | 11 | #2,721 | — | — |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,648 | — | — |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,477 | — | — |
| 1929 | 9 | #3,244 | — | — |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,768 | — | — |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,337 | — | — |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,302 | — | — |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,908 | — | — |
| 1914 | 8 | #2,743 | — | — |
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).