Heitor
Heitor was given to 50 boys in 2025, #2,618 among boys’ names; 377 Americans have been recorded with it since 2006 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Heitor by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Heitor mean?
Wiktionary, Portuguese section
Heitor is “a male given name, equivalent to English Hector”
/ejˈtoʁ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Portuguese section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Heitor?
#2,618 among boys’ names, 2025
Heitor rose from #9,933 in 2015 to #2,618 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 3.7 to 29.3 per million.
54 babies in 2023, the peak
Heitor peaked in 2023, when 54 boys were given it, #2,490 among boys’ names. The 50 births of 2025 are 93% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 50 | #2,618 | 29.3 |
| 2024 | 52 | #2,573 | 30.2 |
| 2023 | 54 | #2,490 | 31.6 |
| 2022 | 48 | #2,732 | 27.5 |
| 2021 | 38 | #3,140 | 21.7 |
| 2020 | 30 | #3,603 | 17.4 |
| 2019 | 36 | #3,216 | 20.1 |
| 2018 | 27 | #3,923 | 14.9 |
| 2017 | 20 | #4,808 | 10.8 |
| 2016 | 9 | #8,380 | 4.7 |
Every recorded year (12)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 7 | #9,933 | 3.7 |
| 2006 | 6 | #11,145 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Heitor a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Heitor has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 12 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Heitor: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Heitor, and how old are they?
An estimated 374 Americans named Heitor and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 4 years old and half are between 2 and 7. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 378 people named Heitor (0 women and girls, 378 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 112 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.4 times 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.
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 Heitor born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | 19 | #299 | 18.0× |
| New Jersey | 8 | #794 | 2.8× |
Where Heitor is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Heitor is most over-represented in Massachusetts: since 2006 it was given 18.0 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 boys’ 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 Heitor with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Heitor
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 Heitor and names like it
- Compare Heitor and ErmiasBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sHeitor peaked in 2023.
- Massachusetts’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Heitor since 1910.
- Portuguese namesWiktionary’s origin for Heitor: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Heitor.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Heitor alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with HMost given first.