Heber
About 3,163 American babies have been named Heber since 1881, most of them around 2005. In 2025 it ranked 3,583rd. About 1,900 Hebers are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 22.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Heber
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 3,163
- Estimated living today
- 1,900
- Median age today
- 22
- Peak year
- 2005
- Best rank
- 1,659th
- Rank in 2025
- 3,583rd
- First recorded
- 1881
How old the living Hebers are
born that year still alive today
Of the 3,163 babies given the name since 1881, about 1,900 are alive — 62 in every hundred. Roughly 710 of them are children and 170 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2003 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin the Bible, from Hebrew
. The town in Arizona is named after either Heber C. Kimball or Heber J. Grant, both Mormon leaders.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Hebers
- Heber J. Grant (1856–1945)President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Heber Oliveira (born 1983)Brazilian association football player
People named Heber with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Heber is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Heber is most concentrated in Utah (38.0×), Texas (3.2×), California (2.7×), Arizona (2.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2005
The most popular boys’ names the year Heber peaked:
Related names
Heber against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.