Heyward
Heyward was last recorded in 2023, when 5 babies were given it; 2,018 Americans have been recorded with it between 1896 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Heyward by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Heyward?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,923, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
43 babies in 1928, the peak
Heyward peaked in 1928, when 43 boys were given it, #1,068 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 | #12,923 | 2.9 |
| 2020 | 9 | #8,303 | 5.2 |
| 2017 | 5 | #12,975 | 2.7 |
| 2015 | 8 | #9,041 | 4.2 |
| 2013 | 5 | #12,830 | 2.6 |
| 2012 | 7 | #10,096 | 3.7 |
| 2010 | 7 | #10,057 | 3.6 |
| 2003 | 5 | #11,527 | 2.5 |
| 1999 | 7 | #8,174 | 3.6 |
| 1997 | 8 | #6,836 | 4.2 |
Every recorded year (102)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 9 | #5,928 | 4.6 |
| 1992 | 5 | #8,928 | 2.5 |
| 1991 | 6 | #7,622 | 3.0 |
| 1989 | 6 | #7,334 | 3.0 |
| 1988 | 7 | #6,019 | 3.7 |
| 1987 | 5 | #7,386 | 2.7 |
| 1986 | 9 | #4,608 | 4.9 |
| 1985 | 7 | #5,375 | 3.8 |
| 1984 | 11 | #3,792 | 6.1 |
| 1983 | 16 | #2,836 | 8.9 |
| 1982 | 6 | #5,924 | 3.3 |
| 1981 | 10 | #3,957 | 5.6 |
| 1980 | 9 | #4,275 | 5.0 |
| 1979 | 8 | #4,576 | 4.6 |
| 1978 | 11 | #3,486 | 6.7 |
| 1977 | 7 | #4,793 | 4.3 |
| 1976 | 11 | #3,355 | 7.0 |
| 1975 | 13 | #2,971 | 8.3 |
| 1974 | 14 | #2,720 | 8.9 |
| 1973 | 9 | #3,548 | 5.8 |
| 1972 | 12 | #2,894 | 7.4 |
| 1971 | 14 | #2,613 | 7.9 |
| 1970 | 10 | #3,148 | 5.4 |
| 1969 | 21 | #1,829 | 11.7 |
| 1968 | 16 | #2,065 | 9.2 |
| 1967 | 14 | #2,188 | 8.0 |
| 1966 | 16 | #1,995 | 9.0 |
| 1965 | 21 | #1,747 | 11.3 |
| 1964 | 21 | #1,759 | 10.5 |
| 1963 | 19 | #1,859 | 9.4 |
| 1962 | 15 | #2,142 | 7.3 |
| 1961 | 25 | #1,616 | 11.8 |
| 1960 | 27 | #1,566 | 12.7 |
| 1959 | 30 | #1,450 | 14.1 |
| 1958 | 20 | #1,796 | 9.4 |
| 1957 | 35 | #1,328 | 16.2 |
| 1956 | 28 | #1,495 | 13.2 |
| 1955 | 33 | #1,324 | 16.0 |
| 1954 | 32 | #1,345 | 15.7 |
| 1953 | 29 | #1,416 | 14.7 |
| 1952 | 30 | #1,387 | 15.4 |
| 1951 | 30 | #1,358 | 15.9 |
| 1950 | 34 | #1,240 | 19.0 |
| 1949 | 40 | #1,118 | 22.5 |
| 1948 | 36 | #1,204 | 20.5 |
| 1947 | 39 | #1,166 | 21.3 |
| 1946 | 30 | #1,284 | 18.5 |
| 1945 | 32 | #1,171 | 23.8 |
| 1944 | 28 | #1,268 | 20.5 |
| 1943 | 30 | #1,268 | 21.0 |
| 1942 | 24 | #1,441 | 17.4 |
| 1941 | 25 | #1,350 | 20.4 |
| 1940 | 32 | #1,195 | 27.6 |
| 1939 | 34 | #1,108 | 30.7 |
| 1938 | 36 | #1,082 | 32.5 |
| 1937 | 41 | #996 | 38.4 |
| 1936 | 27 | #1,281 | 26.0 |
| 1935 | 28 | #1,282 | 26.9 |
| 1934 | 33 | #1,158 | 32.0 |
| 1933 | 24 | #1,379 | 24.2 |
| 1932 | 38 | #1,099 | 36.4 |
| 1931 | 32 | #1,228 | 30.8 |
| 1930 | 37 | #1,161 | 33.7 |
| 1929 | 30 | #1,306 | 27.9 |
| 1928 | 43 | #1,068 | 38.8 |
| 1927 | 36 | #1,212 | 31.9 |
| 1926 | 35 | #1,233 | 31.5 |
| 1925 | 34 | #1,239 | 30.5 |
| 1924 | 32 | #1,310 | 28.3 |
| 1923 | 35 | #1,224 | 31.9 |
| 1922 | 34 | #1,247 | 31.2 |
| 1921 | 36 | #1,210 | 32.7 |
| 1920 | 28 | #1,405 | 26.3 |
| 1919 | 31 | #1,283 | 31.6 |
| 1918 | 24 | #1,514 | 23.7 |
| 1917 | 37 | #1,098 | 40.0 |
| 1916 | 26 | #1,355 | 29.2 |
| 1915 | 20 | #1,575 | 23.6 |
| 1914 | 13 | #1,819 | 19.9 |
| 1913 | 14 | #1,471 | 27.3 |
| 1912 | 17 | #1,152 | 39.5 |
| 1911 | 7 | #1,458 | 31.0 |
| 1910 | 7 | #1,365 | 36.0 |
| 1909 | 6 | #1,363 | 36.6 |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,180 | 45.1 |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,128 | 46.8 |
| 1903 | 8 | #872 | 67.1 |
| 1902 | 7 | #974 | 57.1 |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,126 | 47.0 |
| 1900 | 7 | #1,098 | 46.5 |
| 1897 | 6 | #1,000 | 53.2 |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,169 | 41.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Heyward a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Heyward has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 102 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Heyward: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Heyward, and how old are they?
An estimated 799 Americans named Heyward and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (40% of everyone recorded); the median is 66 years old and half are between 51 and 76. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 862 people named Heyward (21 women and girls, 841 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 944 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% 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).
Where are babies named Heyward born?
The states with the most babies named Heyward are South Carolina, Georgia and New York, with 100% of its births recorded by state since 1910; South Carolina is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Carolina | 1,258 | not ranked | 34.9× |
| Georgia | 72 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| New York | 13 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Heyward is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Heyward is most over-represented in South Carolina: since 1910 it was given 34.9 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 Heyward 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 Heyward
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 Heyward and names like it
- Compare Heyward and LeamonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sHeyward peaked in 1928.
- South Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Heyward since 1910.
- The top names of 1928The year the most babies were named Heyward.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Heyward alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with HMost given first.