Heba vs Heber
American parents have registered 3,163 Hebers since 1880, against 1,403 Hebas. Heber is still ahead, with 31 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Heba Heber
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 141 years in which either name was published, Heber for 121 years and Heba for 20 years. The lead changed hands 16 times.
- 1881–1982 Heber ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1989–1999 Heba ahead, apart from one short spell
- 2000–2015 Heber ahead, apart from one short spell
- 2018–2021 Heba ahead
- 2022–2025 Heber ahead
9 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Heba | Heber | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 1,403 | 3,163 |
| Most in one year | 51 | 81 |
| Babies in 2025 | 20 | 31 |
| Estimated living today | 1,400 | 1,900 |
| Median age today | 21 | 22 |
| Peak year | 2007 | 2005 |
| Best rank | 3,289th girls | 1,659th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 5,917th | 3,583rd |
| First recorded | 1978 | 1881 |
| Girls / boys | 1,403 / 0 | 0 / 3,163 |
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.
Where each one is strongest
- Heba Michigan (3.6×), New Jersey (3.2×), New York (3.1×)
- Heber Utah (38.0×), Texas (3.2×), California (2.7×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Heba and Heber.