Heide
Heide is a surname and feminine given name. Heide is a German and Dutch word meaning 'heath'.
- German
Meaning & Origin of Heide
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Heide is a surname and feminine given name. Heide is a German and Dutch word meaning 'heath'.
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- German
The Story of Heide
The earliest SSA record of Heide as a baby girl name dates back to 1948, when 10 babies received it. 1968 was its biggest year on record, with 84 newborns named Heide — #1,177 in the national rankings. About 34% of every Heide on record arrived during the 1960s, its defining decade. Heide last appeared in the published SSA data in 2021, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 2K Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1940s to the 2020s.
Popularity Over Time
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Variants & Related Forms of Heide
Foreign forms, alternate spellings, and nicknames that share roots with Heide. Linked entries have a profile on Peek a Name.
Names that sound like Heide
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About the name Heide
Heide is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1948 and has accumulated 2K births in the dataset. Heide's peak popularity came in 1968 when it ranked #1,177. Use the chart and map above to compare Heide's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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