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Heather

Pronounced /ˈhɛðɚ/

Rank in 2024
#1,358
Born in 2024
168
Peak year
1975 · #3
Origin
English

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 168 girls were named Heather, about 1 in every 9,602.
  • It peaked in 1975 with 24,302 babies, ranked #3.
  • It first shows up in the records in 1914.
  • 525,733 girls have been named Heather since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Heather per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. <0.1
    Greatest
  2. <0.1
    Silent
  3. 0.4
    Boomers
  4. 9.7
    Gen X
  5. 8.3
    Millennials
  6. 0.9
    Gen Z
  7. 0.1
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 31 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 1,311 babies, 0.06 per 1,000. Boomers: 14,358 babies, 0.40 per 1,000. Gen X: 248,748 babies, 9.74 per 1,000. Millennials: 233,455 babies, 8.27 per 1,000. Gen Z: 25,189 babies, 0.87 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 2,641 babies, 0.13 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

From heather; the given name is one of the plant names taken up in the 19th century. The surname is habitational, also meaning someone living on a heath.

  • A female given name from English.
Origin
English
Say it
/ˈhɛðɚ/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Heather, CC BY-SA 4.0.