first name
HEATHER
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 473,464 people named Heather, 90.2% reported their origin as White, 3.5% as two or more races and 3.2% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Heather peaked in 1975, when 24,366 babies got the name.
At least 527,387 babies have been given the name since 1914. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Heather by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #22. The largest share of babies named Heather, 47.3%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Heather is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Heather has been most common in Alaska (2×), Vermont (2×), and Wyoming (1.9×), and least common in District of Columbia (0.58×).
523,775 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
Either side of Heather
Spelled almost the same
2 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Heather, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Heather ranks #24,966 of 156,621, with 1,041 people. See Heather as a last name
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