Heru
Heru was given to 10 boys in 2025, #7,866 among boys’ names; 257 Americans have been recorded with it since 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Heru by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Heru?
#7,866 among boys’ names, 2025
Heru fell from #4,782 in 2015 to #7,866 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 10.4 to 5.9 per million.
27 babies in 2017, the peak
Heru peaked in 2017, when 27 boys were given it, #3,913 among boys’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 37% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #7,866 | 5.9 |
| 2024 | 13 | #6,598 | 7.5 |
| 2023 | 15 | #6,033 | 8.8 |
| 2022 | 17 | #5,510 | 9.7 |
| 2021 | 18 | #5,196 | 10.3 |
| 2020 | 15 | #5,806 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 15 | #5,917 | 8.4 |
| 2018 | 25 | #4,132 | 13.8 |
| 2017 | 27 | #3,913 | 14.6 |
| 2016 | 23 | #4,380 | 12.1 |
Every recorded year (19)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 20 | #4,782 | 10.4 |
| 2014 | 8 | #9,085 | 4.2 |
| 2013 | 12 | #6,755 | 6.3 |
| 2012 | 8 | #9,173 | 4.2 |
| 2011 | 10 | #7,692 | 5.3 |
| 2010 | 5 | #12,956 | 2.6 |
| 2009 | 6 | #11,500 | 3.0 |
| 2008 | 5 | #13,251 | 2.5 |
| 1998 | 5 | #10,202 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Heru a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Heru has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 19 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Heru: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Heru, and how old are they?
An estimated 255 Americans named Heru and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 11. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 254 people named Heru (14 women and girls, 240 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 171 born in the U.S. The Census count is 49% 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.
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 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,347 babies since 1880, Heru is the second most given (19% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 86 babies (12%), again the second most given.
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 Heru
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 Heru and names like it
- Compare Heru and HeroBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sHeru peaked in 2017.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Heru since 1910.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Heru.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Heru alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with HMost given first.