Heitor is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Hector, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Heitor: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 50 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,491 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,491 in 2023; #2,618 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Heitor in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,618 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #2,491.
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Heitor: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 50 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,491 in 2023 · most boys in one year: 54 (2023).
In 2025, 50 US boys were named Heitor, making it the 2,618th most common boys’ name of the year, down 45 places from #2,573 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 52 boys named Heitor in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,491, reached in 2023. That year also had the most boys given the name: 54. For comparison, it was #9,939 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Heitor in 12 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2006 with 6 babies. In all, 377 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 272 babies named Heitor.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 364 US boys were named Heitor; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 54. In 2025 that was about 1 in 34,162 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Heitor ranked highest in Massachusetts in 2025, at #299 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Hector (109,209 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 Galician and Portuguese. 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).
No nicknames listed for Heitor 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 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | 19 | #299 | — |
| New Jersey | 8 | #794 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
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).