Heidi

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled היידי in IL Israel.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Heidi is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish given name209K records spelled Heidi11 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, France, Mexico, Brazil

  Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

  Also written Heïdi, Heï-Di, Heídi

• a separate given name85K records spelled Heidi3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Italy

  Also written Heídi, Heïdi

• Polish given name12K records spelled Heidi34 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Poland, Czechia, Croatia

  Languages: Polish, Czech, Russian

  Also written Hajdi, Хейди, Хайди, Хеиди, Хајди

• Estonian given name7.8K records spelled Heidi3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Estonia

  Also written Heïdi, Heidí

• a separate given name6.5K records spelled Heidi3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Norway, Canada, Sweden

  Also written Hėidi, Hëidi

72 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Heidi is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In English, German; diminutive of Adelheid, ‘noble kind.’

  as a name·Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

• In French, Germanic form of Adèle, from adal “noble”.

  as a name·Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

• In English, A female given name from the Germanic languages.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Swedish, Heidi är ursprungligen en tysk smekform till sammansättningar innehållande fornhögtyskans -heit, ’karaktär; ursprung’, t.ex. namnet Adelheid (→ Alice). Heidi fick spridning i de tyskspråkiga länderna i slutet av 1800-talet genom schweiziskan Johanna Spyris bok Heidi (1880, på svenska 1882) och kom vidare till Sverige. I den rikssvenska almanackan 5 september och i den finlandssvenska 27 juli.

  as a name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

• Southern German pet form of ADELHEID.

  as a name·A concise dictionary of first names

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 96 years between 1929–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Heidi Heitkampb. 1955USformer United States Senator from North Dakota
• Jennifer Rushb. 1960USnot in their usual nameAmerican pop singer
• Andreas Kriegerb. 1965DEnot in their usual nameEast German shot putter
• Heidi Klumb. 1973DEGerman-American model, television personality and businesswoman
• Heidi Alexanderb. 1975GBBritish politician (born 1975)
• Heidi Rangeb. 1983GBBritish pop singer
• Heidi Gardnerb. 1983USAmerican comedian
• Heidi Montagb. 1986USAmerican television personality
• Heidi Reichinnekb. 1988DEGerman politician
• Ruby Sohob. 1991USnot in their usual nameAmerican professional wrestler

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,271 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Heidi?

We estimate roughly 203 thousand people bear Heidi (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.

In which country does Heidi have the most bearers?

We estimate about 137 thousand people bear Heidi in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled heidi.

Where is Heidi most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Heidi is densest in Finland — about 1 in 236 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.

How common is Heidi compared with other names?

In the United States, Heidi is the 400th most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.

Is Heidi a male or female name?

Heidi is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Heidi mean?

Recorded meaning: German diminutive of Adelheid, from Germanic adal “noble” + heit “kind, sort”.