Meaning not yet researched.
Hedy: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 7 in 2025. Its best rank was #697 in 1941.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #697 in 1941; #12,381 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Hedy in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#12,381 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1941, at #697.
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Hedy: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 7 girls in 2025. Peak: #697 in 1941 · most girls in one year: 109 (1942).
In 2025, 7 US girls were named Hedy, making it the 12,381st most common girls’ name of the year, down 894 places from #11,487 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 8 girls named Hedy in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #697, reached in 1941. The most girls given the name in a single year was 109, in 1942. For comparison, it was #11,244 in 2015 and #1,227 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Hedy in 102 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1915 with 7 babies. In all, 2,316 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1940s, with 796 babies named Hedy.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 102 US girls were named Hedy; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 17. In 2025 that was about 1 in 229,610 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Heidy (6,085 babies since 1880) and Heidi (149,687 babies since 1880).
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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
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 Hedy in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,381 | — | — |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,487 | — | — |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,573 | — | — |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,967 | — | — |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,495 | — | — |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,646 | — | — |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,885 | — | — |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,405 | — | — |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,983 | — | — |
| 2016 | 17 | #7,027 | — | — |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,244 | — | — |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,440 | — | — |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,023 | — | — |
| 2011 | 5 | #17,772 | — | — |
| 2010 | 5 | #17,993 | — | — |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,126 | — | — |
| 2007 | 9 | #11,988 | — | — |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,233 | — | — |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,250 | — | — |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,746 | — | — |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,761 | — | — |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,404 | — | — |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,787 | — | — |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,564 | — | — |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,572 | — | — |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,379 | — | — |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,209 | — | — |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,337 | — | — |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,042 | — | — |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,028 | — | — |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,126 | — | — |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,335 | — | — |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,732 | — | — |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,633 | — | — |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,446 | — | — |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,643 | — | — |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,452 | — | — |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,903 | — | — |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,183 | — | — |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,823 | — | — |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,571 | — | — |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,131 | — | — |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,489 | — | — |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,723 | — | — |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,161 | — | — |
| 1971 | 15 | #4,011 | — | — |
| 1970 | 12 | #4,591 | — | — |
| 1969 | 21 | #2,951 | — | — |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,595 | — | — |
| 1967 | 17 | #3,127 | — | — |
| 1966 | 24 | #2,475 | — | — |
| 1965 | 18 | #2,971 | — | — |
| 1964 | 31 | #2,167 | — | — |
| 1963 | 27 | #2,323 | — | — |
| 1962 | 27 | #2,331 | — | — |
| 1961 | 29 | #2,213 | — | — |
| 1960 | 35 | #1,935 | — | — |
| 1959 | 34 | #1,933 | — | — |
| 1958 | 30 | #2,037 | — | — |
| 1957 | 31 | #1,966 | — | — |
| 1956 | 29 | #2,018 | — | — |
| 1955 | 46 | #1,501 | — | — |
| 1954 | 53 | #1,381 | — | — |
| 1953 | 58 | #1,278 | — | — |
| 1952 | 63 | #1,199 | — | — |
| 1951 | 53 | #1,279 | — | — |
| 1950 | 57 | #1,227 | — | — |
| 1949 | 65 | #1,126 | — | — |
| 1948 | 75 | #1,013 | — | — |
| 1947 | 97 | #901 | — | — |
| 1946 | 86 | #900 | — | — |
| 1945 | 55 | #1,053 | — | — |
| 1944 | 50 | #1,109 | — | — |
| 1943 | 86 | #838 | — | — |
| 1942 | 109 | #712 | — | — |
| 1941 | 102 | #697 | — | — |
| 1940 | 71 | #851 | — | — |
| 1939 | 58 | #927 | — | — |
| 1938 | 22 | #1,670 | — | — |
| 1937 | 9 | #3,028 | — | — |
| 1936 | 18 | #1,826 | — | — |
| 1935 | 12 | #2,481 | — | — |
| 1934 | 23 | #1,571 | — | — |
| 1933 | 22 | #1,628 | — | — |
| 1932 | 13 | #2,416 | — | — |
| 1931 | 14 | #2,247 | — | — |
| 1930 | 20 | #1,836 | — | — |
| 1929 | 23 | #1,663 | — | — |
| 1928 | 17 | #2,131 | — | — |
| 1927 | 17 | #2,203 | — | — |
| 1926 | 15 | #2,401 | — | — |
| 1925 | 15 | #2,425 | — | — |
| 1924 | 21 | #1,948 | — | — |
| 1923 | 20 | #1,974 | — | — |
| 1922 | 24 | #1,750 | — | — |
| 1921 | 16 | #2,328 | — | — |
| 1920 | 12 | #2,801 | — | — |
| 1919 | 9 | #3,313 | — | — |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,646 | — | — |
| 1917 | 9 | #3,200 | — | — |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,732 | — | — |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,592 | — | — |
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).