Hether
Hether was last recorded in 1991, when 10 babies were given it; 364 Americans have been recorded with it between 1964 and 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Hether by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Hether?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #8,181, in 1991; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
26 babies in 1977, the peak
Hether peaked in 1977, when 26 girls were given it, #3,024 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 10 | #8,181 | 5.3 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,568 | 4.2 |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,698 | 7.9 |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,702 | 7.5 |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,800 | 9.3 |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,463 | 7.6 |
| 1984 | 17 | #4,390 | 10.1 |
| 1983 | 17 | #4,342 | 10.2 |
| 1982 | 11 | #6,070 | 6.5 |
| 1981 | 14 | #5,060 | 8.4 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 15 | #4,808 | 9.0 |
| 1979 | 18 | #4,100 | 11.2 |
| 1978 | 15 | #4,513 | 9.8 |
| 1977 | 26 | #3,024 | 17.0 |
| 1976 | 16 | #4,020 | 10.9 |
| 1975 | 20 | #3,428 | 13.7 |
| 1974 | 20 | #3,350 | 13.6 |
| 1973 | 24 | #2,856 | 16.5 |
| 1972 | 15 | #3,960 | 9.9 |
| 1971 | 18 | #3,559 | 10.8 |
| 1970 | 20 | #3,243 | 11.4 |
| 1969 | 13 | #4,034 | 7.7 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,409 | 3.0 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,282 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Hether a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Hether has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 24 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Hether: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hether, and how old are they?
An estimated 345 Americans named Hether and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 48 years old and half are between 42 and 53. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 416 people named Hether (414 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 350 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 527,751 babies since 1880, Hether is the second most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 177 babies recorded by SSA was a Hether (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 Hether
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 Hether and names like it
- Compare Hether and HeatherBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sHether peaked in 1977.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Hether since 1910.
- The top names of 1977The year the most babies were named Hether.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Hether alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with HMost given first.