Heide
Recorded 1948–2021 · United States
Heide was most popular in 1968, when 84 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,925 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,103 people named Heide.
Heide over time
How old is the name Heide?
Heide first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1948, which makes it about 77 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 65 of the 78 years since.
How many people are named Heide?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,103 American births named Heide between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 1,926 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Heide in 2025?
Heide was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Heide getting more or less popular?
Heide is too rare for a direction to mean much. It averaged 5 births a year across 2021–2025 against 6 a year a decade earlier — at these counts a single baby moves the percentage, and any year under five births is withheld at source.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Heide a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Heide is a girl’s name — 100.0% of the 2,103 Americans given it were girls and 0.0% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 100% girls and 0% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Heide?
Roughly 1,926 Americans named Heide are alive today — 92% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 56 years old, and half are between 46 and 63.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Heide is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org