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Heitor

#2,618 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Hector

Heitor has been given to 377 babies in the U.S. since 2006. In 2025 it ranked #2,618 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 54 recorded.

Babies named Heitor, 2025

1 in 66,300

Heitor over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Heitor: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Hector

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Heitor means

Heitor is a form of Hector.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Heitor → Hector. The family’s meaning is “holding fast”, recorded in English with the source elements héktōr.

Origin, language, and formation

Heitor is used in Portuguese.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Hector.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Portuguese, Heitor is pronounced /ejˈtoʁ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 377 boys were recorded with the name Heitor between 2006 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 54 in 2023; its best national rank was #2,490 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,603 in 2020 to #2,618 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,933 in 2015 to #2,618 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Heitor?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 66,300
50 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 34,200
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,618
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
45,959 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Heitor 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 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 45,959 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Heitor. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Heitors were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Heitor was born before 2022 — so the typical Heitor is around 3 today.

Median birth year
2022
About 3 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
72.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
377
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 72.1% of all recorded uses (272).

Is Heitor 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
−45
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+985
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+7,315
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
7.14×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
92.6%
Peak was 2023 (54)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,490
2023

Spellings of Heitor

Heitor is not the most common spelling — Hector is, with 88.4% against Heitor's 0.31%.

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 Heitor is used

Across 1910–2025, Heitor was most concentrated in Massachusetts — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 112,394 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Massachusetts1 in 33,333
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 100,000
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4Pennsylvania1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Heitor has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Heitor around the world

Where Heitor 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
    2009–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2018–2025
    #577
    in 2025
  • France
    2014–2025
    #2,900
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2017–2020
    #2,283
    in 2020

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Heitor by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,618
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 985
Best rank ever
#2,490
2023
Peak year
2023
54 that year
First recorded
2006
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
377
Count in 2025
50

Names similar to Heitor

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

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Sibling names for Heitor

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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