Meaning not yet researched.
Heidi: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 894 in 2025. Its best rank was #60 in 1974.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #60 in 1974; #340 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Heidi in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#340 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1974, at #60.
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Heidi: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 894 girls in 2025. Peak: #60 in 1974 · most girls in one year: 4,723 (1972).
In 2025, 894 US girls were named Heidi, making it the 340th most common girls’ name of the year, up 5 places from #345 in 2024. That is 12 fewer than the 906 girls named Heidi in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #60, reached in 1974. The most girls given the name in a single year was 4,723, in 1972. For comparison, it was #343 in 2015 and #520 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Heidi in 96 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1929 with 8 babies. In all, 149,687 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 42,385 babies named Heidi.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 8,621 US girls were named Heidi; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 906. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,798 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Heidi ranked highest in Oklahoma in 2025, at #133 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Heidy (6,085 babies since 1880), Heide (2,103 babies since 1880) and Hedy (2,316 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Hiedi, Heydi and Heidie 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, German and Norwegian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Hiedi (1,033), Heydi (697), Heidie (395), Adelheid (225), Heydy (179), Heddy (135), Hedi (108), Heidee (66), Hidi (57), Hidie (38), Heddie (38), Heida (29), and more.
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 Heidi in the open dataset we use.
Heidi is listed as a nickname for Adelaide.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 14 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma | 28 | #133 | #342 |
| Kentucky | 27 | #167 | #248 |
| Arkansas | 18 | #171 | #334 |
| West Virginia | 9 | #191 | #324 |
| Tennessee | 38 | #206 | #228 |
| Mississippi | 12 | #224 | #232 |
| Virginia | 34 | #241 | #346 |
| Kansas | 13 | #242 | #212 |
| Indiana | 29 | #248 | #259 |
| Alabama | 19 | #252 | #260 |
| Nebraska | 9 | #255 | — |
| Missouri | 24 | #258 | #251 |
| Colorado | 25 | #260 | #261 |
| South Carolina | 18 | #280 | #538 |
| Georgia | 34 | #310 | #417 |
| North Carolina | 35 | #312 | #251 |
| Ohio | 35 | #319 | #363 |
| Texas | 105 | #323 | #296 |
| Idaho | 7 | #324 | #293 |
| Louisiana | 14 | #329 | #378 |
| Wisconsin | 16 | #332 | #313 |
| Oregon | 11 | #337 | #229 |
| Utah | 12 | #371 | #231 |
| Florida | 48 | #386 | #633 |
| Illinois | 26 | #411 | #431 |
| Washington | 17 | #419 | #315 |
| California | 76 | #437 | #307 |
| Iowa | 7 | #461 | #484 |
| Minnesota | 11 | #478 | #434 |
| Michigan | 17 | #491 | #467 |
| Arizona | 14 | #495 | #445 |
| Connecticut | 6 | #500 | #294 |
| Massachusetts | 9 | #583 | #380 |
| Pennsylvania | 18 | #584 | #414 |
| New Jersey | 13 | #593 | #516 |
| New York | 27 | #617 | #503 |
| Maryland | 6 | #771 | #663 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 894 | #340 | — | — |
| 2024 | 906 | #345 | — | — |
| 2023 | 868 | #352 | — | — |
| 2022 | 858 | #370 | — | — |
| 2021 | 795 | #396 | — | — |
| 2020 | 810 | #382 | — | — |
| 2019 | 845 | #373 | — | — |
| 2018 | 901 | #354 | — | — |
| 2017 | 855 | #364 | — | — |
| 2016 | 889 | #366 | — | — |
| 2015 | 955 | #343 | — | — |
| 2014 | 957 | #346 | — | — |
| 2013 | 903 | #354 | — | — |
| 2012 | 931 | #339 | — | — |
| 2011 | 954 | #331 | — | — |
| 2010 | 1,069 | #303 | — | — |
| 2009 | 1,117 | #295 | — | — |
| 2008 | 1,168 | #289 | — | — |
| 2007 | 1,122 | #303 | — | — |
| 2006 | 1,124 | #294 | — | — |
| 2005 | 994 | #324 | — | — |
| 2004 | 934 | #343 | — | — |
| 2003 | 978 | #315 | — | — |
| 2002 | 954 | #322 | — | — |
| 2001 | 831 | #356 | — | — |
| 2000 | 880 | #351 | — | — |
| 1999 | 915 | #331 | — | — |
| 1998 | 848 | #343 | — | — |
| 1997 | 885 | #326 | — | — |
| 1996 | 994 | #291 | — | — |
| 1995 | 961 | #289 | — | — |
| 1994 | 1,016 | #275 | — | — |
| 1993 | 1,143 | #244 | 5 | #9,255 |
| 1992 | 1,242 | #225 | — | — |
| 1991 | 1,328 | #218 | — | — |
| 1990 | 1,466 | #200 | — | — |
| 1989 | 1,540 | #181 | 10 | #4,959 |
| 1988 | 1,746 | #162 | 11 | #4,284 |
| 1987 | 1,914 | #144 | 9 | #4,708 |
| 1986 | 2,123 | #131 | 6 | #6,232 |
| 1985 | 2,321 | #125 | 8 | #4,861 |
| 1984 | 2,671 | #101 | 9 | #4,343 |
| 1983 | 2,915 | #95 | 12 | #3,492 |
| 1982 | 3,392 | #86 | 19 | #2,544 |
| 1981 | 3,738 | #84 | 8 | #4,690 |
| 1980 | 4,027 | #79 | 21 | #2,396 |
| 1979 | 3,670 | #83 | 22 | #2,266 |
| 1978 | 3,567 | #83 | 19 | #2,413 |
| 1977 | 3,640 | #81 | 18 | #2,496 |
| 1976 | 3,890 | #70 | 17 | #2,543 |
| 1975 | 4,294 | #66 | 14 | #2,810 |
| 1974 | 4,683 | #60 | 15 | #2,599 |
| 1973 | 4,396 | #65 | 12 | #2,919 |
| 1972 | 4,723 | #64 | 18 | #2,194 |
| 1971 | 4,714 | #77 | 15 | #2,494 |
| 1970 | 4,642 | #81 | 16 | #2,334 |
| 1969 | 4,532 | #80 | 16 | #2,174 |
| 1968 | 3,913 | #89 | 7 | #3,488 |
| 1967 | 3,865 | #88 | 12 | #2,404 |
| 1966 | 3,966 | #87 | 8 | #3,091 |
| 1965 | 3,559 | #105 | 5 | #4,141 |
| 1964 | 3,452 | #124 | 7 | #3,414 |
| 1963 | 2,940 | #140 | 7 | #3,450 |
| 1962 | 2,662 | #156 | 5 | #4,291 |
| 1961 | 2,521 | #166 | 5 | #4,308 |
| 1960 | 2,341 | #170 | 5 | #4,282 |
| 1959 | 1,912 | #187 | — | — |
| 1958 | 1,946 | #187 | — | — |
| 1957 | 1,453 | #218 | — | — |
| 1956 | 1,352 | #223 | — | — |
| 1955 | 1,030 | #261 | — | — |
| 1954 | 867 | #288 | — | — |
| 1953 | 681 | #314 | — | — |
| 1952 | 411 | #422 | — | — |
| 1951 | 319 | #467 | — | — |
| 1950 | 247 | #520 | — | — |
| 1949 | 248 | #522 | — | — |
| 1948 | 237 | #538 | — | — |
| 1947 | 203 | #599 | — | — |
| 1946 | 154 | #637 | — | — |
| 1945 | 83 | #825 | — | — |
| 1944 | 100 | #765 | — | — |
| 1943 | 92 | #802 | — | — |
| 1942 | 70 | #939 | — | — |
| 1941 | 43 | #1,140 | — | — |
| 1940 | 40 | #1,160 | — | — |
| 1939 | 52 | #983 | — | — |
| 1938 | 50 | #1,012 | — | — |
| 1937 | 18 | #1,870 | — | — |
| 1936 | 11 | #2,585 | — | — |
| 1935 | 11 | #2,630 | — | — |
| 1934 | 15 | #2,124 | — | — |
| 1933 | 8 | #3,243 | — | — |
| 1931 | 8 | #3,334 | — | — |
| 1930 | 10 | #2,937 | — | — |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,513 | — | — |
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).