Heidie — girls' name
395 babies named Heidie in U.S. Social Security records since 1959, with the highest year being 1972. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
33% of everyone ever named Heidie was born in this single decade.
18 babies were named Heidie in 1972 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Heidie
The Social Security Administration has registered 395 babies named Heidie between 1959 and 2017, spanning 59 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Heidie currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2017. The name reached its historical peak in 1972, when 18 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Heidie performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 130 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Heidie shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Heidie in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Heidie 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 395 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.
Heidie at a glance
Last recorded 2017Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Heidie popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2017–1959
- Peak year (1972)
- 18
- Annual births at peak — across 59 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2017.
395 total births across 59 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1972 with 18 births in a single year.
Heidie by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1970s
- 130 births that decade — 33% of Heidie's all-time total
Heidie decade highlights
- Peak decade 130 births
- Runner-up 81 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1970s was Heidie's strongest decade
130 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 33% of all-time use.
Heidie by state
Where Heidie concentrates geographically — total births since 1959
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 5 | 1.3% |
5 of 395 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 1.3% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 1.3% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1959–2017 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.