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Heidy

#1,917 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Heidy has been given to 6,085 babies in the U.S. since 1955. In 2025 it ranked #1,917 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2010, with 338 recorded.

Babies named Heidy, 2025

1 in 32,800

Heidy over time, 1880–2025

Girls
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Heidy: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Heidy means

Heidy is a given name.

The naming story behind Heidy

Wikidata records Heidy as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q19968530, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,085 girls were recorded with the name Heidy between 1955 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 338 in 2010; its best national rank was #809 in 2010.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,722 in 2020 to #1,917 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,603 in 2015 to #1,917 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.

How common is Heidy?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 32,800
101 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 15,900
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,917
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
22,753 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Heidy 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 22,753 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Heidy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Heidys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Heidy was born before 2007 — so the typical Heidy is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
35.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
73.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
6,085
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 35.6% of all recorded uses (2,169).

Is Heidy 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
−105
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−195
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−314
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.75×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
29.9%
Peak was 2010 (338)
Years since peak
15
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#809
2010

Spellings of Heidy

Heidy is not the most common spelling — Wendy is, with 56.8% against Heidy's 1.3%.

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 Heidy is used

Across 2016–2025, Heidy was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 8,333 girls, against 1 in 11,796 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in 50,000).

212 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 8,333
  2. 2New York1 in 8,333
  3. 3Texas1 in 8,333
  4. 4New Jersey1 in 10,000
  5. 5Georgia1 in 11,111
  6. 6Florida1 in 14,286
  7. 7Massachusetts1 in 25,000
  8. 8Alabama1 in 33,333

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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.

Heidy around the world

Where Heidy 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
    2017–2017
    #5,765
    in 2017
  • France
    1979–2025
    #5,831
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2023
    #3,391
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1966–1984
    #661
    in 1984

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Heidy

People whose public names include Heidy, 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.

Heidy in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Heidy. Linked forms have their own page here.

HedyHeddyHeidiHeid

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Heidy by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,917
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 195
Best rank ever
#809
2010
Peak year
2010
338 that year
First recorded
1955
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,085
Count in 2025
101

Names similar to Heidy

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

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Names with a curve like Heidy

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

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Sibling names for Heidy

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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