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Heidi

The name Heidi carries the meaning "Noble kind", with roots in Germanic. It has faded some since the 1970s without dropping off entirely. These days, it is familiar to most people. Since 1900, roughly 142,777 babies in the U.S. have been given this name.

GermanicDiminutive of Adelheid
GermanicNoble kind
Births by decade
1900s
0
1910s
0
1920s
8
1930s
183
1940s
1,270
1950s
10,214
1960s
33,817
1970s
42,396
1980s
26,494
1990s
10,797
2000s
10,098
2010s
7,500
Peaked in the 1970s · 142,777 total U.S. births since 1900