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Heidi
Pronounced /ˈhaɪdi/
Rank in 2024
#344
Born in 2024
901
Peak year
1972 · #64
Origin
Germanic
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 901 girls were named Heidi, about 1 in every 1,790.
- It peaked in 1972 with 4,723 babies, ranked #64.
- It first shows up in the records in 1929.
- 148,426 girls have been named Heidi since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Heidi per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- 0.7Boomers1946–64
- 2.6Gen X1965–80
- 1.1Millennials1981–96
- 0.5Gen Z1997–12
- 0.5Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 619 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Boomers: 24,977 babies, 0.70 per 1,000. Gen X: 66,081 babies, 2.59 per 1,000. Millennials: 30,511 babies, 1.08 per 1,000. Gen Z: 15,702 babies, 0.54 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 10,536 babies, 0.52 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
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).
- A female given name from the Germanic languages.
- Origin
- Germanic
- Say it
- /ˈhaɪdi/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Heidi, CC BY-SA 4.0.