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Heiko

Boys' name

Home + king, through Heinrich

Heiko has been given to 22 babies in the U.S. since 1969. 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 2018, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Heiko, 2018

1 in 502,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Heiko: meaning, origin, and history

Home + king, through Heinrich

German and Low German

What Heiko means

Heiko belongs to the name family reached through Heiko → Heinrich → *Haimarīks. Its meaning is “home + king”.

Origin, language, and formation

Heiko is used in Estonian and German. Its origins include German and Low German.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Heinrich and *Haimarīks.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 22 boys were recorded with the name Heiko between 1969 and 2018. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2018; its best national rank was #4,650 in 1969.

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 Heiko?

Heiko had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2018
1 in 502,000
7 of 3,516,853 births
Among boys only
1 in 259,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2018
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
348,244 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Heiko 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 2018 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 348,244 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Heiko. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Heikos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Heiko was born before 1975 — so the typical Heiko is around 50 today.

Median birth year
1975
About 50 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
45.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
31.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
22
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 45.5% of all recorded uses (10).

Is Heiko 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 2018 (7)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#4,650
1969

Spellings of Heiko

Heiko is not the most common spelling — Niko is, with 65.3% against Heiko's 0.10%.

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.

Heiko around the world

Where Heiko 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.

  • France
    2011–2017
    #4,661
    in 2017
  • South Australia
    1956–1999
    #539
    in 1999

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.

Heiko by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#4,650
1969
Peak year
2018
7 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
2018
All-time count
22
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Heiko

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

JeikoKeikoHeirMaikoYeikoHeidenHeitanAnikoHeithanSeikoReikoHeinAmikoKnikoZikoInikoDemikoLikoHeinerDenikoAikoBikoHeitorEniko

Sibling names for Heiko

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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