Heidi
Heidi is a girl's name that peaked in 1972, when it was the 64th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 340th. About 140,000 Heidis are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 48.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Heidi boys named Heidi
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 149,687
- Estimated living today
- 140,000
- Median age today
- 48
- Peak year
- 1972
- Best rank
- 64th
- Rank in 2025
- 340th
- First recorded
- 1929
- Girls / boys
- 149,326 / 361
How old the living Heidis are
born that year still alive today
Of the 149,687 babies given the name since 1929, about 140,000 are alive — 93 in every hundred. Roughly 17,000 of them are children and 11,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1977 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 Germanic languages
From Swiss German Heidi, a pet form of Adelheid, equivalent of English Adelaide and Alice. The name became internationally popular due to the children's book Heidi (1880).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Heidis
- Heidi Klum (born 1973)German-American model, television personality and businesswoman
- Heidi Weng (born 1991)Norwegian cross-country skier and fell runner
- Heidi Brühl (1942–1991)German singer and actress
- Heidi Løke (born 1982)Norwegian female handball player
- Heidi Reichinnek (born 1988)German politician
- Heidi Heitkamp (born 1955)former United States Senator from North Dakota
- Heidi Range (born 1983)British pop singer
- Heidi Hautala (born 1955)Finnish politician
People named Heidi with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Heidi is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Heidi is most concentrated in Utah (3.3×), Alaska (2.7×), Idaho (2.7×), New Hampshire (2.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1972
The most popular girls’ names the year Heidi peaked:
Heidi elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Norway girls | Heidi | 16,369 | 2nd |
| England and Wales girls | Heidi | 13,051 | 76th |
| France girls | Heidi +1 spelling | 2,785 | 282nd |
| Ireland girls | Heidi | 1,240 | 74th |
| Scotland girls | Heidi | 1,100 | 89th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Heidi | 633 | 48th |
| New Zealand girls | Heidi | 531 | 72nd |
| Denmark girls | Heidi | 298 | 22nd |
| France boys | Heidi | 235 | 1,043rd |
| Switzerland girls | Heidi | 214 | 547th |
| Belgium girls | Heidi | 72 | 965th |
| Poland girls | Heidi | 69 birth registrations | 319th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Heidi: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Heidi | 148 | 0.012% | 498th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Heidi | 61 | 0.014% | 337th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Heidi | 5 | 0.008% | 110th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Heidi is most concentrated in Zurich, where 0.01% of children were given it – 42 of them.
Heidi: rank by region
In 2024, Heidi was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Heidi | 839 | 5 |
In 2012, Heidi was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Heidi | 10 | 2 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Heidi by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 42 | 273rd |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Heidi among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Heidi | 21,116 | 23,619 |
| the Netherlands girls | Heidi | 2,940 | 3,352 |
| the Netherlands boys | Heidi | — | 37 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026, the Netherlands on 1 January 2018 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Heidi lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 515 women called Heidi were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Palmas, Las | Heidi | 29 | 0.049 | 1,735 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Heidi | 49 | 0.048 | 1,374 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Heidi | 26 | 0.047 | 1,607 |
| Málaga | Heidi | 41 | 0.045 | 1,266 |
| Balears, Illes | Heidi | 27 | 0.043 | 1,437 |
| Tarragona | Heidi | 17 | 0.039 | 1,539 |
Listed in 19 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 33 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Heidi against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.