Heath
Heath was given to 253 boys in 2025, #932 among boys’ names; 29,704 Americans have been recorded with it since 1913 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 27,500 Americans named Heath and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 44 years old and half are between 28 and 51.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Heath by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Heath mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Heath is “a male given name.”
English surname, from the noun heath.
/hiːθ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Heath?
#932 among boys’ names, 2025
Heath fell from #834 in 2015 to #932 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 0.14 to 0.15 per 1,000.
1,264 babies in 1974, the peak
Heath peaked in 1974, when 1,264 babies were given it (1,249 boys, #181 among boys’ names). The 253 births of 2025 are 20% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 253 | #932 | 0.15 |
| 2024 | 285 | #852 | 0.17 |
| 2023 | 206 | #1,056 | 0.12 |
| 2022 | 280 | #862 | 0.16 |
| 2021 | 234 | #960 | 0.13 |
| 2020 | 215 | #992 | 0.12 |
| 2019 | 227 | #946 | 0.13 |
| 2018 | 224 | #937 | 0.12 |
| 2017 | 242 | #890 | 0.13 |
| 2016 | 251 | #874 | 0.13 |
Every recorded year (103)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 270 | #834 | 0.14 |
| 2014 | 231 | #924 | 0.12 |
| 2013 | 249 | #858 | 0.13 |
| 2012 | 244 | #865 | 0.13 |
| 2011 | 250 | #853 | 0.13 |
| 2010 | 295 | #761 | 0.15 |
| 2009 | 356 | #681 | 0.18 |
| 2008 | 324 | #717 | 0.16 |
| 2007 | 221 | #903 | 0.11 |
| 2006 | 267 | #778 | 0.13 |
| 2005 | 242 | #797 | 0.12 |
| 2004 | 288 | #690 | 0.15 |
| 2003 | 255 | #721 | 0.13 |
| 2002 | 275 | #674 | 0.14 |
| 2001 | 216 | #782 | 0.11 |
| 2000 | 187 | #852 | 0.10 |
| 1999 | 206 | #770 | 0.11 |
| 1998 | 268 | #653 | 0.14 |
| 1997 | 259 | #642 | 0.14 |
| 1996 | 261 | #642 | 0.14 |
| 1995 | 293 | #599 | 0.15 |
| 1994 | 372 | #526 | 0.19 |
| 1993 | 363 | #538 | 0.19 |
| 1992 | 350 | #545 | 0.18 |
| 1991 | 390 | #503 | 0.19 |
| 1990 | 457 | #460 | 0.22 |
| 1989 | 535 | #402 | 0.27 |
| 1988 | 552 | #365 | 0.29 |
| 1987 | 576 | #345 | 0.31 |
| 1986 | 566 | #338 | 0.31 |
| 1985 | 593 | #332 | 0.32 |
| 1984 | 640 | #305 | 0.35 |
| 1983 | 652 | #302 | 0.36 |
| 1982 | 709 | #289 | 0.39 |
| 1981 | 790 | #271 | 0.44 |
| 1980 | 906 | #247 | 0.51 |
| 1979 | 998 | #228 | 0.58 |
| 1978 | 1,021 | #211 | 0.62 |
| 1977 | 1,076 | #207 | 0.65 |
| 1976 | 1,151 | #195 | 0.73 |
| 1975 | 1,204 | #188 | 0.77 |
| 1974 | 1,249 | #181 | 0.79 |
| 1973 | 1,072 | #202 | 0.69 |
| 1972 | 1,234 | #190 | 0.76 |
| 1971 | 1,053 | #225 | 0.60 |
| 1970 | 756 | #278 | 0.41 |
| 1969 | 524 | #345 | 0.29 |
| 1968 | 548 | #326 | 0.32 |
| 1967 | 516 | #329 | 0.30 |
| 1966 | 433 | #361 | 0.24 |
| 1965 | 37 | #1,260 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 10 | #2,731 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 6 | #3,797 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 10 | #2,742 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 6 | #3,801 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 11 | #2,597 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 7 | #3,410 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 7 | #3,390 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 10 | #2,656 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 6 | #3,585 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 10 | #2,593 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 7 | #3,191 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 5 | #3,903 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 7 | #3,132 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 10 | #2,512 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 5 | #3,731 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 5 | #3,509 | under 0.01 |
| 1944 | 8 | #2,728 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,074 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 9 | #2,599 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 5 | #3,732 | under 0.01 |
| 1940 | 7 | #2,986 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 5 | #3,754 | under 0.01 |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,002 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 5 | #3,883 | under 0.01 |
| 1934 | 5 | #3,905 | under 0.01 |
| 1933 | 5 | #3,877 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 5 | #3,998 | under 0.01 |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,138 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,235 | under 0.01 |
| 1927 | 7 | #3,611 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 7 | #3,529 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 6 | #3,928 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 7 | #3,645 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 6 | #3,998 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 13 | #2,400 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 13 | #2,423 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 19 | #1,844 | 0.02 |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,229 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 14 | #2,123 | 0.02 |
| 1916 | 8 | #3,034 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 6 | #3,587 | 0.01 |
| 1913 | 9 | #2,003 | 0.02 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Heath a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Heath has been given almost only to boys: 181 girls in 103 years of records.
Girls and boys named Heath: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Heath, and how old are they?
27,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 29,704 Americans ever recorded as Heath. The median Heath alive today is 44 years old; half are between 28 and 51.
The 2020 Census counted 24,261 people named Heath (180 women and girls, 24,081 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 26,621 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 19 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 79 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 12,400 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 7,730 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,090 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,140 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Heath born?
The states with the most babies named Heath are Texas, Ohio and California, with 23% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 2,680 | #1,594 | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 1,769 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| California | 1,622 | #975 | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 1,237 | #590 | 0.9× |
| Alabama | 962 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Florida | 955 | #975 | 0.8× |
| Indiana | 917 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| New York | 896 | #1,241 | 0.4× |
| Louisiana | 890 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| North Carolina | 877 | #840 | 1.1× |
Where Heath is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Heath is most over-represented in Arkansas: since 1913 it was given 2.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Heath with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 30,276 babies since 1880, Heath is the most given (98% of them). In 2025 it was given to 253 of their 253 babies (100%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Heath
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Heath and names like it
- Compare Heath and HeithBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sHeath peaked in 1974.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Heath since 1910.
- The top names of 1974The year the most babies were named Heath.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Heath alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with HMost given first.