Meaning and history
From an English surname meaning someone who lived on a heath, Heath was popularized as a given name by the character Heath Barkley in the 1960s television series The Big Valley.
20062006: 267 births, rank #776
2007: 221 births, rank #903
2008: 324 births, rank #716
2009: 356 births, rank #681
2010: 295 births, rank #761
20112011: 250 births, rank #853
2012: 244 births, rank #863
2013: 249 births, rank #858
2014: 231 births, rank #923
2015: 270 births, rank #831
20162016: 251 births, rank #874
2017: 242 births, rank #890
2018: 224 births, rank #936
2019: 227 births, rank #945
2020: 215 births, rank #992
20212021: 234 births, rank #957
2022: 280 births, rank #862
2023: 206 births, rank #1,053
2024: 285 births, rank #852
20252025: 253 births, rank #929
Heath moved from #852 to #932 for boys between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 1974, with 1,249 births.