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#15,758 in 2025Girls' name

Heart

Heart has been given to 84 babies in the U.S. since 2004. In 2025 it ranked #15,758 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Heart, 2025

1 in 663,000

Heart over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Heart: meaning, origin, and history

Heart

English

What Heart means

Heart means “heart”, associated with heorte.

Origin, language, and formation

Heart is used in Cebuano and Tagalog. Its origins include English.

Heart comes through English heart, Middle English herte, Old English heorte, Proto-Germanic *hertô and Proto-Indo-European *ḱḗr.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Tagalog, Heart is pronounced /ˈhaɾt/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 84 girls were recorded with the name Heart between 2004 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 13 in 2019; its best national rank was #8,213 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #12,639 in 2020 to #15,758 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Heart?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#15,758
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Heart sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Heart. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hearts were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Heart was born before 2020 — so the typical Heart is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
58.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
84
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 58.3% of all recorded uses (49).

Is Heart rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−3,109
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,119
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
38.5%
Peak was 2019 (13)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,213
2023

Spellings of Heart

Heart is not the most common spelling — Pearl is, with 89.7% against Heart's 0.05%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Heart around the world

Where Heart ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2025–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Heart by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#15,758
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,119
Best rank ever
#8,213
2023
Peak year
2019
13 that year
First recorded
2004
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
84
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Heart

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Heart

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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