🔥Heather

HEHV-er

English botanical name

"small shrub"

Heather Origin and Meaning

The name Heather is a girl's name of English origin meaning "small shrub".

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.

Heather Rank in US Top 1000

# 982 in the US

Heather Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 699 on Nameberry

Popularity of the name Heather

• 982 US 2016
• 699 Nameberry 2025
• 352 Unique 2024
• 828 England 2024

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Famous People Named Heather

• 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

The name 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.