Fewer than five US girls were named Heide in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #1,183, reached in 1968. That year also had the most girls given the name: 84. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and #2,594 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Heide in 65 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1948 with 10 babies. In all, 2,103 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 721 babies named Heide.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5 US girls were named Heide; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 5.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Heidi (149,687 babies since 1880) and Eider (749 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Hyde, Hayde and Haide are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in German. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.