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Heathcliff

#12,704 in 2025Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Heathcliff has been given to 31 babies in the U.S. since 2011. In 2025 it ranked #12,704 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Heathcliff, 2025

1 in 663,000

Heathcliff over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Heathcliff: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Heathcliff means

Heathcliff is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Heathcliff is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 31 boys were recorded with the name Heathcliff between 2011 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2020; its best national rank was #11,104 in 2020.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #11,104 in 2020 to #12,704 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 Heathcliff?

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 boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#12,704
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Heathcliff sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 Heathcliff. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Heathcliffs were born

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

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
51.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
31
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 51.6% of all recorded uses (16).

Is Heathcliff 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
+282
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,600
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
83.3%
Peak was 2020 (6)
Years since peak
5
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Very steady
0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#11,104
2020

Heathcliff around the world

Where Heathcliff 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
    2012–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • France
    1974–1974
    #2,369
    in 1974

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Heathcliff by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#12,704
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,600
Best rank ever
#11,104
2020
Peak year
2020
6 that year
First recorded
2011
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
31
Count in 2025
5

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

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