Heather
About Heather
This flower name was one of the most popular in her class in the seventies and eighties, a fact reflected in the 1989 movie Heathers, in which every snobby girl in the high school clique bears the name. Now, though still pretty and evocative of the Scottish moors, it has faded in favor of other purplish blooms. It fell out of the Top 1000 in 2016 after having been as high as Number 3 in 1975, when it was given to close to 25,000 girls. Across the pond in the UK however, it remains near the latter end of the Top 1000.
Pronounced HETH-er.
As of October 2026, Heather ranked #1264 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #3 in 1975, Nameberry popularity #849.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #837 | 331 | 185.3 |
| 2015 | #965 | 281 | 157.4 |
| 2016 | #977 | 274 | 154.6 |
| 2017 | #1,126 | 223 | 129.2 |
| 2018 | #1,152 | 211 | 124 |
| 2019 | #1,387 | 162 | 96.5 |
| 2020 | #1,443 | 151 | 93.4 |
| 2021 | #1,307 | 173 | 105.4 |
| 2022 | #1,309 | 180 | 109.7 |
| 2023 | #1,326 | 171 | 106.6 |
| 2024 | #1,352 | 168 | 103.7 |
| 2025 | #1,264 | 177 | 110.1 |
World rankings
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Heather on lists
Famous Heathers
- Heather Deen Locklear
American actress
- Heather Headley
Trinidadian,American singer
- Heather Joan Graham
American actress
- Heather Elizabeth Morris
American actress and dancer
- Heather Paige DuBrow
American reality TV personality ("Real Housewives of Orange County")
- Heather Thomson
American reality TV personality ("Real Housewives of NYC")
- Heather Christina Marie Matarazzo
American actress
- Heather Nova (born Heather Allison Frith)
Bermudian singer,songwriter
- Heather Marie Tom
American actress
- Heather Bratton
American model
- Heather Stohler
American model
- Heather Michele O'Rourke
former American child actress
- Heather McHugh
American poet
- Heather McComb
American actress
- Heather Hemmens
American actress
- Heather Anne Mills
English model; ex,wife of musician Paul McCartney
- Heather Elizabeth Langenkamp
American actress
- Heather B. Gardner
American rapper
- Heather Grace Angel
Anglo,American actress
- Heather Small
British R&B singer
- Heather Leigh Whitestone
Miss America 1995
- Heather Ann O'Reilly Werry
American soccer player
- Heather Blaine Mitts
American soccer player
- Heather Williams
pen name of Venezuelan,American novelist Tui T. Sutherland
- Heather Kuzmich
American model ("America's Next Top Model" Cycle 9)
- Heather Louise McCartney (b. 1962)
daughter of Linda & Paul McCartney
- Heather Garcia (b. 1963)
daughter of Grateful Dead rocker Jerry Garcia
- Heather Henson (b. 1970)
daughter of Muppeteer Jim Henson
- Heather Sloane Chua (b. 2016)
daughter of actress Nadine Samonte and Richard Chua
- Heather Kozar
American Model Playboy Magazine Playmate of the year for 1999
Heather in pop culture
- Heather McNamara
Heather Duke, and Heather Chandler, characters in 1988 movie "Heathers"
- Heather Biblow
character on TV's "The Nanny"
- Heather Mason
main character in video game "Silent Hill 3"
- Heather
character on TV's "Total Drama Island" & "Total Drama Action"
- Heather Vasquez
character in video game "Sims 3 Moonlight Bay"
- Heather Fox
character in Jessica Burkhart's Canterwood Crest series
- Heather Davis
character on TV's "Crazy Ex,Girlfriend"
- Lady Heather Kessler
recurring character on TV's "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation"
- Heather Campbell
character in the Highlander film series
- Heather Dante
character on TV's "The Sopranos"
- Heather Hart
character in "Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said" by Philip K. Dick
- Heather Farrell
character on the original "Degrassi" TV series
- Heather Sinclair
unseen character on TV's "Degrassi: The Next Generation"
- Heather Stevens Williams
character on American soap opera The Young and the Restless
- Heather the Violet Fairy
character in the Rainbow Magic book series
- Heather Bock
character in the "Girls Only" series
- Heather Chandler
character on TV's "Beauty and the Beast'
- "Heather Has Two Mommies
" children's book by Lesléa Newman
- Heather
character from DreamWorks Dragons
- Heather Hills
character from Diary of a Wimpy Kid
- 'Heather' A character from a song by Conan Gray
who is portrayed as beautiful and kind. Heather is the girl that your crush has a crush on, everyone wants to be Heather.