Hearld vs Heath
American parents have registered 29,704 Heaths since 1880, against 30 Hearlds. Heath is still ahead, with 253 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Hearld Heath
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 103 years in which either name was published, Heath for 102 years and Hearld for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.
Side by side
| Hearld | Heath | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 30 | 29,704 |
| Most in one year | 10 | 1,264 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | 253 |
| Estimated living today | 5 | 28,000 |
| Median age today | 81 | 43 |
| Peak year | 1927 | 1974 |
| Best rank | 2,703rd boys | 181st boys |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | 929th |
| First recorded | 1927 | 1913 |
| Girls / boys | 0 / 30 | 181 / 29,523 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Hearlds alive today are over 81; half the Heaths are over 43. That is 38 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Hearld and Heath.