Heru

#7,866 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Horus

Heru has been given to 257 babies in the U.S. since 1998. In 2025 it ranked #7,866 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 27 recorded.

Babies named Heru, 2025

1 in 332,000

Heru over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Heru: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Horus

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Heru means

Heru is a form of Horus.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Heru → Horus. The family’s proposed meaning is “above, over or distant”, recorded in the naming reference for Horus.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Horus.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 257 boys were recorded with the name Heru between 1998 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 27 in 2017; its best national rank was #3,913 in 2017.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,806 in 2020 to #7,866 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,782 in 2015 to #7,866 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.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Heru?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 332,000; 10 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only: 1 in 171,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025: #7,866; of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 229,791 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Heru 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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Heru. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Herus were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Heru was born before 2017 — so the typical Heru is around 8 today.

Median birth year: 2017; About 8 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 59.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 98.1%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 257; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 59.5% of all recorded uses (153).

Is Heru 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: −1,268; Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago: −2,060; Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago: −3,084; Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago: 0.50×; Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak: 37.0%; Peak was 2017 (27)
Years since peak: 8; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 32.0% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,913; 2017

Spellings of Heru

Heru is not the most common spelling — Henry is, with 82.9% against Heru's 0.03%.

Henry82.9%768,945
Beau7.1%65,592
Bert3.6%33,585
Vern1.2%11,497
Henri0.57%5,328
Jere0.46%4,278
Tru0.41%3,794
Hyrum0.37%3,406

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 Heru is used

Across 1910–2025, Heru was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,903,406 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1New York1 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. Heru has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Heru around the world

Where Heru 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
2018–2018
#3,959
in 2018

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Heru by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: #7,866
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Down 2,060
Best rank ever: #3,913; 2017
Peak year: 2017; 27 that year
First recorded: 1998
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 257
Count in 2025: 10

Names similar to Heru

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

Hero Heri Heron Hersh Herson Herny Hermes Herve Herby Herlin Hershy Hersey Hersel Herley Herb Herron Herold Herndon Herod Hermilo Herchel Herald Hershey Hermen

Sibling names for Heru

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

Annabell Abagail Karleigh Rhianna Adelle Kendyl Anabel Jaiden

For a brother

Aaden Kale Caesar Brennen Tobin Jerimiah Jorden Gavyn

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