Heddy
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Heddy has been given to 135 babies in the U.S. since 1922. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1943, with 12 recorded.
Babies named Heddy, 1962
1 in 807,000
Heddy over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Heddy?
Heddy had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1962, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1962
- 1 in 807,000
- 5 of 4,035,213 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 393,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1962
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 559,400 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Heddy sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1962 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 559,400 children born in 1962 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Heddy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Heddys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Heddy was born before 1946 — so the typical Heddy is around 79 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1940s
- 51.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 88.1%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 50
- People you could plausibly meet
1940s — 51.1% of all recorded uses (69).
Is Heddy 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1943 (12)
- Years since peak
- 82
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 24.7% average annual change
Spellings of Heddy
Heddy is not the most common spelling — Wendy is, with 59.2% against Heddy's 0.03%.
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.
Heddy around the world
Where Heddy 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.
- France1952–1952#1,540in 1952
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Heddy by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Heddy
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Heddy
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.