Heili

Girls' name

To shine, warm, smoulder, burn, through Eili

Heili has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 2004. 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 2004, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Heili, 2004

1 in 764,000

Heili over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Heili: meaning, origin, and history

To shine, warm, smoulder, burn, through Eili

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Heili means

Heili belongs to the name family reached through Heili → Eili → Eili → Eli → Elin → Helene → Ἑλένη. Its meaning is “to shine, warm, smoulder, burn”.

Origin, language, and formation

Heili is used in Estonian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Eili, Eli, Elin, Helene and Ἑλένη.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Heili between 2004 and 2004. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2004; its best national rank was #17,068 in 2004.

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.

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How common is Heili?

Heili had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2004, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2004: 1 in 764,000; 5 of 3,820,181 births
Among girls only: 1 in 367,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2004: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 529,591 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Heili 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 2004 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 529,591 children born in 2004 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Heili. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Heilis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Heili was born before 2004 — so the typical Heili is around 21 today.

Median birth year: 2004; About 21 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 5; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Heili 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: —; 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 2004 (5)
Years since peak: 21; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #17,068; 2004

Spellings of Heili

Heili is not the most common spelling — Sheila is, with 38.9% against Heili's <0.01%.

Sheila38.9%238,774
Heidi24.4%149,326
Kelli12.2%74,891
Leila9.0%55,436
Holli1.4%8,743
Keila1.2%7,424
Shelli1.1%6,983
Hailie1.1%6,565

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.

Heili by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #17,068; 2004
Peak year: 2004; 5 that year
First recorded: 2004
Last recorded: 2004
All-time count: 5
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Heili

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

Heiry Heisy Heilly Heisel Heilani Heimy Reili Yaili Neili Paili Heizel Hili Heida Sheili Nahili Heidiann Anaili Gwili Camili Heilyn Heiley Delaili Laili Leili

Sibling names for Heili

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Iyanna Charlize Jasmyn Kya Elyssa Shreya Anastacia Jaci

For a brother

Kadin Alexandro Lazaro Reagan Braulio Alexandre Johnpaul Mikel

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