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Heber

#3,600 in 2025Boys' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Heber has been given to 3,163 babies in the U.S. since 1881. In 2025 it ranked #3,600 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2005, with 81 recorded.

Babies named Heber, 2025

1 in 107,000

Heber over time, 1880–2025

Boys
025507510018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Heber: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Biblical Hebrew and Irish

What Heber means

Heber has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: distinct naming traditions.

Origin, language, and formation

Heber is used in English. Its origins include Biblical Hebrew and Irish.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Heber is pronounced /ˈhibɚ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,163 boys were recorded with the name Heber between 1881 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 81 in 2005; its best national rank was #508 in 1891.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,319 in 2020 to #3,600 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,044 in 2015 to #3,600 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 Heber?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 107,000
31 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 55,100
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,600
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
74,127 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Heber 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 74,127 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Heber. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hebers were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Heber was born before 1983 — so the typical Heber is around 42 today.

Median birth year
1983
About 42 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
18.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
35.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,964
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Choose a decade

2000s — 18.5% of all recorded uses (585).

Is Heber 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
−187
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+719
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−556
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.82×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
38.3%
Peak was 2005 (81)
Years since peak
20
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#508
1891

Spellings of Heber

Heber is not the most common spelling — Peter is, with 60.3% against Heber's 0.32%.

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.

Where Heber is used

Across 1910–2025, Heber was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 5,000 boys, against 1 in 87,776 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

020 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 5,000
  2. 2California1 in 50,000
  3. 3Idaho1 in 50,000
  4. 4Texas1 in 50,000
  5. 5Arizona1 in 100,000
  6. 6North Carolina1 in 100,000
  7. 7South Carolina1 in 100,000
  8. 8Colorado1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Heber has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Notable people named Heber

People whose public names include Heber, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Heber by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,600
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 719
Best rank ever
#508
1891
Peak year
2005
81 that year
First recorded
1881
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,163
Count in 2025
31

Names similar to Heber

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

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Names with a curve like Heber

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Heber, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Heber

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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