Heidi
Top 1000
About Heidi
Heidi became known — and popular — via the 1880 eponymous children's classic by Swiss writer Johanna Spyri and, despite decades of American Heidis of all sizes, shapes, and personalities, the name seems permanently tethered to that spunky little girl on the Alpine mountaintop in the book and Shirley Temple movie.
The movie was released in 1937, and two years later the name popped onto the charts, and would, a few decades later, be a Top 100 name for close to twenty years. The prominence of Heidi Klum on Project Runway has given it a new recent bump.
Pronounced HY-dee.
As of October 2026, Heidi ranked #340 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #60 in 1974, Nameberry popularity #299.
Editor: Pamela Redmond
Sources: US popularity data is from the Social Security Administration. Meanings and origins are from Nameberry's name references.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #346 | 957 | 535.7 |
| 2015 | #343 | 955 | 535 |
| 2016 | #366 | 889 | 501.7 |
| 2017 | #364 | 855 | 495.2 |
| 2018 | #354 | 901 | 529.7 |
| 2019 | #373 | 845 | 503.5 |
| 2020 | #381 | 810 | 501.1 |
| 2021 | #396 | 795 | 484.5 |
| 2022 | #370 | 858 | 523.1 |
| 2023 | #352 | 867 | 540.3 |
| 2024 | #345 | 901 | 556.1 |
| 2025 | #340 | 894 | 556.2 |
World rankings
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Heidi on lists
Famous Heidis
- Heidi Swedberg
American actress
- Heidi Klum
German supermodel and TV personality
- Heidi Blair Montag
American reality TV personality
- Mary Kathryn "Heidi" Heitkamp
U.S. Senator from North Dakota
- Heidi Mount
American fashion model
- Heidi India Range
English singer of group Sugababes
- Heidi Noelle Lenhart
American actress
- Heidi Lynne Fleiss
the "Hollywood Madam"
- Heidi Lovelace
ring name of Dori Prange, American pro wrestler
- Heidi Talbot
Irish folk singer of group Cherish the Ladies
- Heidi Suzanne Cruz
American investment manager; wife of politician Ted Cruz
- Heidi Hamilton
American radio personality
- Heidi Androl
American reality TV personality
- Heidi Mark
American model and actress
- Heidi Becker
Austrian model
- Heidi Blickenstaff
American actress
- Heidi Zeigler
American actress
- Heidi Groskreutz
American dancer
- Heidi Jo Mueller
American actress
- Heidi Newfield
American singer of band Trick Pony
- Heidi Isabella Tuesday Jackson
daughter of YouTubers Ash and James Jackson
- Heidi Davies
Playboy chat room administrator , appeared in the September 1998 Issue
- Heidi N Closet
stage name of Trevien Anthonie Cheek, American drag queen
Heidi in pop culture
- Adelheid "Heidi
" main character in film and book "Heidi" by Johanna Spyri
- Heidi Keppert
character on TV's 'Home Improvement'
- Heidi "Pepper" Steiger
character on Australian TV soap "Neighbours"
- Heidi
vampire in the Twilight saga
- Heidi Turner
character in South Park