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Heber

Boys’ name Recorded 1881-2025

Heber was given to 31 boys in 2025, #3,600 among boys’ names; 3,163 Americans have been recorded with it since 1881 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).

An estimated 1,930 Americans named Heber and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (61% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 15 and 37.

Babies named Heber each year, first recorded in 1881
Heber, 1880-2025; highest in 2005.20406080100188019001920194019601980200020252005 peak: 81
Heber, 1880-2025; highest in 2005.20406080100188019001920194019601980200020252005 peak: 81
Heber, 1880-2025; highest in 2005.2040608010018801905193019551980200520252005 peak: 81
Heber, 1880-2025; highest in 2005.2040608010018801930198020252005 peak: 81

Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).

Heber or AngusNames of the 2000sNames in Utah

Births of Heber by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.

What does Heber mean?

Wiktionary, English section

Heber is “a male given name originating from the Bible [in turn from Hebrew].”

Also “a male given name from Irish.”

Borrowed from Biblical Hebrew עֵבֶר (ʿĒḇer).

/ˈhibɚ/

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary, entry Heber (English), CC BY‑SA 4.0. Quoted from the entry; text after a cross-reference to another sense is left out.

Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).

How popular is Heber?

#3,600 among boys’ names, 2025

Heber fell from #3,044 in 2015 to #3,600 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 19.8 to 18.1 per million.

81 babies in 2005, the peak

Heber peaked in 2005, when 81 boys were given it, #1,662 among boys’ names. The 31 births of 2025 are 38% of that peak.

Heber by year
YearBirthsRankPer 1,000 boys
202531#3,6000.02
202434#3,4130.02
202329#3,8300.02
202241#3,0240.02
202128#3,8470.02
202023#4,3190.01
201928#3,8350.02
201830#3,6430.02
201733#3,4070.02
201624#4,2370.01
Every recorded year (141)
YearBirthsRankPer 1,000 boys
201538#3,0440.02
201437#3,0560.02
201344#2,6800.02
201260#2,1890.03
201147#2,6000.02
201064#2,1020.03
200958#2,2650.03
200866#2,0960.03
200761#2,1970.03
200669#1,9520.03
200581#1,6620.04
200449#2,3210.02
200341#2,5190.02
200258#1,9250.03
200152#2,0310.03
200050#2,0260.03
199938#2,3680.02
199828#2,8820.01
199732#2,5110.02
199642#2,0520.02
199526#2,7890.01
199426#2,7960.01
199323#2,9680.01
199231#2,3730.02
199124#2,7680.01
199019#3,2180.01
198921#2,9330.01
198823#2,5450.01
198712#3,8170.01
198614#3,3270.01
198519#2,6360.01
198419#2,5640.01
198317#2,7130.01
198223#2,2270.01
198115#2,9530.01
198019#2,5720.01
197914#3,0660.01
197812#3,2820.01
197713#3,0920.01
19767#4,603under 0.01
197513#2,9700.01
197414#2,7190.01
19739#3,5450.01
19725#5,272under 0.01
197114#2,6120.01
19707#4,002under 0.01
19699#3,1630.01
19686#3,880under 0.01
19678#3,089under 0.01
196611#2,5310.01
19656#3,687under 0.01
196410#2,7320.01
196310#2,746under 0.01
19629#2,928under 0.01
196112#2,4650.01
19609#2,953under 0.01
19597#3,411under 0.01
19587#3,391under 0.01
195711#2,5430.01
195611#2,5520.01
195510#2,657under 0.01
195418#1,8510.01
195310#2,6060.01
195214#2,1080.01
195116#1,9360.01
195015#1,9690.01
194916#1,8970.01
19488#2,874under 0.01
194711#2,4270.01
194517#1,6530.01
194410#2,3740.01
194318#1,7300.01
194211#2,3170.01
194114#1,9440.01
194020#1,5390.02
193915#1,8310.01
193817#1,7160.02
193719#1,5990.02
193617#1,6790.02
193517#1,7300.02
193420#1,5830.02
193318#1,6730.02
193213#2,1400.01
193125#1,4080.02
193027#1,4090.02
192923#1,5450.02
192835#1,2190.03
192727#1,4480.02
192635#1,2320.03
192531#1,3160.03
192448#1,0240.04
192330#1,3400.03
192244#1,0640.04
192144#1,0610.04
192039#1,1460.04
191938#1,1330.04
191840#1,0860.04
191741#1,0240.04
191635#1,1070.04
191545#9320.05
191427#1,1130.04
191325#1,0080.05
191219#1,0740.04
19118#1,3280.04
191011#1,0070.06
190911#9180.07
19089#9850.06
19059#8700.07
19048#9240.06
190310#7520.08
190111#6580.10
19008#9960.05
18999#7470.08
18988#8400.07
18976#9980.05
189612#6540.10
189513#5880.11
189411#6490.10
18939#7280.08
189213#5830.11
189113#5080.13
18907#8430.06
18898#7450.07
18889#7190.07
18877#7850.07
18869#6650.08
188512#5610.11
188411#5850.10
18836#8350.06
18826#8820.05
18816#8180.06

Download Heber’s births by year (CSV)

Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.

Is Heber a boy’s or a girl’s name?

Heber has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 141 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).

Girls and boys named Heber: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.

How many people are named Heber, and how old are they?

1,930 alive in 2026, estimated

That is 61% of the 3,163 Americans ever recorded as Heber. The median Heber alive today is 23 years old; half are between 15 and 37.

The 2020 Census counted 3,134 people named Heber (50 women and girls, 3,084 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,845 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.

Alive today, by age

100-1091
90-9913
80-8943
70-7978
60-6971
50-5981
40-49154
30-39237
20-29 (median)488
10-19494
0-9275

Alive today, by generation

By generation
GenerationBornAlive
Silent Generation1928-194556
Baby Boomers1946-1964135
Generation X1965-1980149
Millennials1981-1996337
Generation Z1997-2012841
Generation Alpha2013-2025417

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 Heber born?

States with the most births: girls and boys together; rank among boys’ names in the state in 2025
StateBirths 2025Rank, boysvs. national
California5#2,5970.9×
Texas5#2,7161.0×

Where Heber is more common than its national share predicts

Relative to its national share, Heber is most over-represented in Utah: since 1910 it was given 9.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.

Utah9.79×

Bars start at 1× (as often as the national share predicts).

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 Heber with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.

Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Heber

Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.

NameRecorded1880-2025
Angus6,751
Price4,022
Ransom4,869
Reuben32,190
Elder2,320
Park1,637

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 Heber and names like it

  1. Compare Heber and AngusBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
  2. The most given names of the 2000sHeber peaked in 2005.
  3. Utah’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Heber since 1910.
  4. The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Heber.
  5. The names of Generation ZMost people named Heber alive today were born 1997-2012.
  6. Names starting with HMost given first.

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