Heiden
#9,210 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Heiden has been given to 79 babies in the U.S. since 2012. In 2025 it ranked #9,210 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 16 recorded.
Babies named Heiden, 2025
1 in 414,000
Heiden 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Heiden?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 414,000
- 8 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 213,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #9,210
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 287,238 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Heiden sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Heiden. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Heidens were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Heiden was born before 2021 — so the typical Heiden is around 4 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 59.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 79
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 59.5% of all recorded uses (47).
Is Heiden 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
- −3,464
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +3,548
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 50.0%
- Peak was 2024 (16)
- Years since peak
- 1
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 29.6% average annual change
Spellings of Heiden
Heiden is not the most common spelling — Aiden is, with 44.4% against Heiden's 0.01%.
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.
Heiden around the world
Where Heiden 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.
- France2010–2024#4,830in 2024
- South Australia2006–2006#657in 2006
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Heiden by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Heiden
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Heiden
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.