Heith
Heith was last recorded in 2011, when 7 babies were given it; 572 Americans have been recorded with it between 1966 and 2011 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Heith by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Heith?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #10,001, in 2011; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
31 babies in 1974, the peak
Heith peaked in 1974, when 31 boys were given it, #1,601 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 7 | #10,001 | 3.7 |
| 2010 | 6 | #11,238 | 3.1 |
| 2008 | 13 | #6,536 | 6.4 |
| 2007 | 10 | #7,796 | 4.8 |
| 2006 | 9 | #8,251 | 4.4 |
| 2005 | 8 | #8,569 | 4.0 |
| 2004 | 7 | #9,277 | 3.5 |
| 2003 | 5 | #11,519 | 2.5 |
| 2002 | 6 | #9,818 | 3.1 |
| 2001 | 5 | #11,193 | 2.6 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 5 | #11,011 | 2.5 |
| 1997 | 5 | #9,807 | 2.7 |
| 1996 | 11 | #5,311 | 5.8 |
| 1995 | 6 | #8,172 | 3.2 |
| 1993 | 10 | #5,498 | 5.1 |
| 1991 | 10 | #5,237 | 4.9 |
| 1990 | 10 | #5,128 | 4.9 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,475 | 3.5 |
| 1988 | 13 | #3,767 | 6.8 |
| 1987 | 8 | #5,135 | 4.3 |
| 1986 | 13 | #3,517 | 7.1 |
| 1985 | 16 | #2,999 | 8.7 |
| 1984 | 16 | #2,868 | 8.9 |
| 1983 | 16 | #2,834 | 8.9 |
| 1982 | 15 | #3,020 | 8.3 |
| 1981 | 26 | #2,059 | 14.5 |
| 1980 | 18 | #2,655 | 10.1 |
| 1979 | 27 | #1,964 | 15.7 |
| 1978 | 25 | #1,987 | 15.2 |
| 1977 | 29 | #1,801 | 17.6 |
| 1976 | 26 | #1,897 | 16.6 |
| 1975 | 18 | #2,393 | 11.5 |
| 1974 | 31 | #1,601 | 19.7 |
| 1973 | 24 | #1,842 | 15.4 |
| 1972 | 26 | #1,743 | 16.0 |
| 1971 | 17 | #2,315 | 9.6 |
| 1970 | 17 | #2,239 | 9.1 |
| 1969 | 11 | #2,756 | 6.2 |
| 1968 | 11 | #2,642 | 6.3 |
| 1967 | 13 | #2,281 | 7.5 |
| 1966 | 16 | #1,994 | 9.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Heith a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Heith has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 41 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Heith: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Heith, and how old are they?
An estimated 528 Americans named Heith and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 46 years old and half are between 37 and 52. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 520 people named Heith (1 woman or girl, 519 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 540 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 30,276 babies since 1880, Heith is the second most given (1.9% of them). In 2025 none of their 253 babies recorded by SSA was a Heith (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 Heith
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 Heith and names like it
- Compare Heith and HeathBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sHeith peaked in 1974.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Heith since 1910.
- The top names of 1974The year the most babies were named Heith.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Heith alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with HMost given first.