Heide
Heide was last recorded in 2021, when 5 babies were given it; 2,103 Americans have been recorded with it between 1948 and 2021 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,900 Americans named Heide and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (90% of everyone recorded); the median is 56 years old and half are between 46 and 63.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Heide by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Heide mean?
Wiktionary, German section
Heide is “a diminutive of the female given name Adelheid”
From the given name Adelheid.
/ˈhaɪdə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, German section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Heide?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,138, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
84 babies in 1968, the peak
Heide peaked in 1968, when 84 girls were given it, #1,183 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 5 | #16,138 | 3.0 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,591 | 3.9 |
| 2013 | 5 | #17,539 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,612 | 5.1 |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,875 | 4.4 |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,151 | 6.9 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,189 | 6.8 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,154 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,518 | 3.8 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,543 | 8.2 |
Every recorded year (65)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 13 | #8,162 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,556 | 7.8 |
| 2000 | 15 | #6,927 | 8.3 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,815 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,568 | 4.0 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,304 | 5.2 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,065 | 5.1 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,204 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,326 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,695 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 19 | #5,117 | 10.3 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,179 | 5.3 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,240 | 7.4 |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,282 | 7.1 |
| 1988 | 25 | #3,735 | 14.0 |
| 1987 | 15 | #5,146 | 8.6 |
| 1986 | 19 | #4,238 | 11.1 |
| 1985 | 18 | #4,328 | 10.5 |
| 1984 | 26 | #3,261 | 15.4 |
| 1983 | 26 | #3,178 | 15.6 |
| 1982 | 38 | #2,504 | 22.4 |
| 1981 | 33 | #2,740 | 19.8 |
| 1980 | 47 | #2,164 | 28.3 |
| 1979 | 44 | #2,225 | 27.4 |
| 1978 | 47 | #2,020 | 30.7 |
| 1977 | 41 | #2,228 | 26.7 |
| 1976 | 44 | #2,006 | 30.0 |
| 1975 | 49 | #1,859 | 33.6 |
| 1974 | 60 | #1,588 | 40.9 |
| 1973 | 53 | #1,693 | 36.3 |
| 1972 | 71 | #1,399 | 46.7 |
| 1971 | 69 | #1,479 | 41.5 |
| 1970 | 68 | #1,481 | 38.9 |
| 1969 | 69 | #1,390 | 40.9 |
| 1968 | 84 | #1,183 | 51.2 |
| 1967 | 70 | #1,306 | 42.4 |
| 1966 | 82 | #1,186 | 48.5 |
| 1965 | 79 | #1,212 | 44.8 |
| 1964 | 78 | #1,249 | 41.2 |
| 1963 | 59 | #1,449 | 30.6 |
| 1962 | 71 | #1,317 | 36.1 |
| 1961 | 63 | #1,410 | 31.2 |
| 1960 | 66 | #1,357 | 32.6 |
| 1959 | 55 | #1,454 | 27.2 |
| 1958 | 52 | #1,483 | 25.8 |
| 1957 | 47 | #1,574 | 23.0 |
| 1956 | 34 | #1,846 | 16.9 |
| 1955 | 33 | #1,856 | 16.9 |
| 1954 | 17 | #2,731 | 8.8 |
| 1953 | 22 | #2,257 | 11.7 |
| 1952 | 16 | #2,719 | 8.6 |
| 1951 | 24 | #2,031 | 13.3 |
| 1950 | 16 | #2,593 | 9.3 |
| 1949 | 11 | #3,261 | 6.4 |
| 1948 | 10 | #3,437 | 5.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Heide a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Heide has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 65 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Heide: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Heide, and how old are they?
1,900 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 90% of the 2,103 Americans ever recorded as Heide. The median Heide alive today is 56 years old; half are between 46 and 63.
The 2020 Census counted 2,559 people named Heide (2,549 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,953 born in the U.S. The Census count is 31% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 555 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 902 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 285 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 139 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 17 |
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 Heide born?
The states with the most babies named Heide are New York, California and Illinois, with 69% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 190 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| California | 168 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 117 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Michigan | 79 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Wisconsin | 33 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New Jersey | 30 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 21 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Minnesota | 16 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Washington | 16 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Heide is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Heide is most over-represented in New York: since 1948 it was given 1.1 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 Heide 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 161,684 babies since 1880, Heide is the fourth most given (1.3% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,019 babies recorded by SSA was a Heide (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Heide
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 Heide and names like it
- Compare Heide and HeidiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sHeide peaked in 1968.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Heide since 1910.
- German namesWiktionary’s origin for Heide: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1968The year the most babies were named Heide.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Heide alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with HMost given first.