Heide — girls' name

What the Data Says About Heide

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,103 babies named Heide between 1948 and 2021, spanning 74 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Heide currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2021. The name reached its historical peak in 1968, when 84 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Heide performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 721 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Heide shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 190 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Heide in 11 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Heide in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,103 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.