Meaning and history
German diminutive of Adelheid. It is the name of the title character in the children's novel Heidi (1880) by the Swiss author Johanna Spyri, and it became used in the English-speaking world shortly after the 1937 film adaptation starring Shirley Temple.
20062006: 1,124 births, rank #294
2007: 1,122 births, rank #303
2008: 1,168 births, rank #289
2009: 1,117 births, rank #295
2010: 1,069 births, rank #303
20112011: 954 births, rank #331
2012: 931 births, rank #338
2013: 903 births, rank #354
2014: 957 births, rank #346
2015: 955 births, rank #343
20162016: 889 births, rank #366
2017: 855 births, rank #364
2018: 901 births, rank #354
2019: 845 births, rank #373
2020: 810 births, rank #381
20212021: 795 births, rank #396
2022: 858 births, rank #370
2023: 868 births, rank #352
2024: 906 births, rank #345
20252025: 894 births, rank #340
Heidi rose from #345 to #340 for girls between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 1972, with 4,723 births.