Hedy
Hedy was given to 7 girls in 2025, #12,377 among girls’ names; 2,316 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,450 Americans named Hedy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (62% of everyone recorded); the median is 71 years old and half are between 54 and 79.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Hedy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Hedy?
#12,377 among girls’ names, 2025
Hedy fell from #11,239 in 2015 to #12,377 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 5.0 to 4.4 per million.
109 babies in 1942, the peak
Hedy peaked in 1942, when 109 girls were given it, #712 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 6% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,377 | 4.4 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,482 | 4.9 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,568 | 5.0 |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,962 | 6.1 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,490 | 4.9 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,641 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,881 | 8.3 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,400 | 6.5 |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,979 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 17 | #7,024 | 9.6 |
Every recorded year (102)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9 | #11,239 | 5.0 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,435 | 5.6 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,016 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 5 | #17,764 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 5 | #17,984 | 2.8 |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,120 | 3.2 |
| 2007 | 9 | #11,984 | 4.7 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,227 | 4.9 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,244 | 3.8 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,740 | 4.9 |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,755 | 5.6 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,397 | 5.0 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,779 | 3.3 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,557 | 5.1 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,566 | 2.9 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,373 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,203 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,331 | 3.3 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,035 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,022 | 4.3 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,121 | 4.0 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,331 | 5.2 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,727 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,630 | 4.8 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,443 | 3.6 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,641 | 4.8 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,451 | 4.2 |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,901 | 5.6 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,181 | 5.2 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,821 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,569 | 4.8 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,129 | 6.2 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,488 | 6.8 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,721 | 6.2 |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,161 | 9.2 |
| 1971 | 15 | #4,009 | 9.0 |
| 1970 | 12 | #4,590 | 6.9 |
| 1969 | 21 | #2,950 | 12.4 |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,594 | 6.1 |
| 1967 | 17 | #3,126 | 10.3 |
| 1966 | 24 | #2,474 | 14.2 |
| 1965 | 18 | #2,970 | 10.2 |
| 1964 | 31 | #2,166 | 16.4 |
| 1963 | 27 | #2,322 | 14.0 |
| 1962 | 27 | #2,330 | 13.7 |
| 1961 | 29 | #2,212 | 14.4 |
| 1960 | 35 | #1,934 | 17.3 |
| 1959 | 34 | #1,932 | 16.8 |
| 1958 | 30 | #2,036 | 14.9 |
| 1957 | 31 | #1,965 | 15.2 |
| 1956 | 29 | #2,017 | 14.4 |
| 1955 | 46 | #1,500 | 23.5 |
| 1954 | 53 | #1,380 | 27.3 |
| 1953 | 58 | #1,277 | 30.8 |
| 1952 | 63 | #1,198 | 34.0 |
| 1951 | 53 | #1,278 | 29.4 |
| 1950 | 57 | #1,226 | 33.3 |
| 1949 | 65 | #1,125 | 38.0 |
| 1948 | 75 | #1,012 | 44.2 |
| 1947 | 97 | #900 | 54.7 |
| 1946 | 86 | #899 | 54.7 |
| 1945 | 55 | #1,053 | 42.1 |
| 1944 | 50 | #1,108 | 37.7 |
| 1943 | 86 | #838 | 61.6 |
| 1942 | 109 | #712 | 80.7 |
| 1941 | 102 | #697 | 84.4 |
| 1940 | 71 | #851 | 62.1 |
| 1939 | 58 | #927 | 52.9 |
| 1938 | 22 | #1,670 | 19.9 |
| 1937 | 9 | #3,027 | 8.5 |
| 1936 | 18 | #1,826 | 17.3 |
| 1935 | 12 | #2,480 | 11.4 |
| 1934 | 23 | #1,571 | 22.0 |
| 1933 | 22 | #1,628 | 21.8 |
| 1932 | 13 | #2,414 | 12.2 |
| 1931 | 14 | #2,246 | 13.1 |
| 1930 | 20 | #1,835 | 17.8 |
| 1929 | 23 | #1,662 | 20.6 |
| 1928 | 17 | #2,130 | 14.7 |
| 1927 | 17 | #2,202 | 14.3 |
| 1926 | 15 | #2,400 | 12.7 |
| 1925 | 15 | #2,424 | 12.3 |
| 1924 | 21 | #1,947 | 16.8 |
| 1923 | 20 | #1,974 | 16.6 |
| 1922 | 24 | #1,750 | 20.0 |
| 1921 | 16 | #2,328 | 13.0 |
| 1920 | 12 | #2,801 | 10.0 |
| 1919 | 9 | #3,311 | 8.0 |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,644 | 6.9 |
| 1917 | 9 | #3,198 | 8.3 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,730 | 4.8 |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,590 | 7.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Hedy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Hedy has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 102 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Hedy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hedy, and how old are they?
1,450 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 62% of the 2,316 Americans ever recorded as Hedy. The median Hedy alive today is 71 years old; half are between 54 and 79.
The 2020 Census counted 2,230 people named Hedy (2,188 women and girls, 42 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,612 born in the U.S. The Census count is 38% above 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
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 287 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 688 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 180 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 73 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 95 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 120 |
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 Hedy born?
The states with the most babies named Hedy are New York, Pennsylvania and California, with 77% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 366 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 107 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| California | 71 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 32 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 27 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Texas | 22 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| New Jersey | 12 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Indiana | 11 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Georgia | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Michigan | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Hedy is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Hedy is most over-represented in New York: since 1915 it was given 1.9 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 girls’ 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 Hedy 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 161,424 babies since 1880, Hedy is the third most given (1.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 1,019 babies (<1%), the fourth most given that year.
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 Hedy
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 Hedy and names like it
- Compare Hedy and HeidiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sHedy peaked in 1942.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Hedy since 1910.
- The top names of 1942The year the most babies were named Hedy.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Hedy alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with HMost given first.