Heidi

What Heidi means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Heidi yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Up from #343 in 2015 to #340 in 2025 in the US Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Heidi?

US: Steady: #343 in 2015, #340 now. England & Wales: Falling: down from #80 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1974, when 4,683 girls got the name (#60 that year). First in the US records in 1929.

How common

• About 1 in 1,798 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 674 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 373 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in OK (1.89 per 1,000 girls), WV (1.77 per 1,000 girls), AR (1.7 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Heidi is #340 in the US and #130 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Heidi were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Heidy101 US
• Heydi17 US
• Heti0 US · 7 E&W
• Hedy7 US
• Hetti0 US · 3 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Heidi

Girls

• Alison#476“of noble kind”^*
• Linda#902“tender, soft”^*
• Alicia#460Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1984, with 7,820 babies; 672 in 2025
• Robin#704Diminutive of Robert, meaning “shining glory”^*
• Anne#619Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1959, with 5,745 babies; 472 in 2025
• Allison#103Form of Elon, meaning “oak tree”^*

For a brother

• Charles#48“free man”^*
• Derek#284Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1989, with 8,365 babies; 1,191 in 2025
• Roger#832“fame-spear”^*
• Leonard#637“lion”^*
• Jeffrey#552Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #552 vs #1,705 in 2025
• Ronald#637“advice + power”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Germanic, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Heidi’s. Rank is US 2025.