Heidi
given name · Latin script
Meaning: German diminutive of Adelheid, from Germanic adal “noble” + heit “kind, sort”
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/haɪdi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Heidi is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Norway it is the 61st most common given name.
- FIFinland1 in 236(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 351
- DKDenmark1 in 364
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #917 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 560 (measured from records)
- 1 in 236 (inferred from the name graph)
≈420,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
German diminutive of Adelheid, from Germanic adal “noble” + heit “kind, sort”.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Heidi counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈420,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | — | Heidi | 41 |
| US United States | #394 | 137,519 | 1 in 2.4K | 137K | Heidi | 560 |
| DE Germany | #237 | ≈70,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Heidi | 212 |
| GB United Kingdom | #393 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | 45 | Heidi | 269 |
| FI Finland | #301 | 23,643 | 1 in 236 | 26K | Heidi | 85 |
| DK Denmark | #78 | 16,105 | 1 in 364 | 16K | Heidi | 160 |
| NO Norway | #61 | 15,595 | 1 in 351 | 52K | Heidi | 115 |
| AT Austria | #182 | ≈9,000 est. | ≈1 in 989 | 952 | Heidi | 102 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
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 nameBaby 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 nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In English, A female given name from the Germanic languages.
as a wordkaikki.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 nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Southern German pet form of ADELHEID.
as a nameA 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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 103 sources across 56 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 137K | #411 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 52K | #47 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 26K | #89 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 24K | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 16K | #33 |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2025 | 16K | — |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2024 | 952 | #108 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 894 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Navne til nyfødte (1985–present) | 1985 | 298 | #22 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 128 | #411 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2024 | 63 | #108 |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 2024 | 45 | #95 |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- 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, and where does it come from?
- German diminutive of Adelheid, from Germanic adal “noble” + heit “kind, sort”. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- What are other forms of the name Heidi?
- In the etymology graph, Ali, Alicia and Alice are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Adelheid.
- In which country does Heidi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 419 thousand people named Heidi in China, more than in any other country we hold, 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 China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Heidi?
- In the United States, the national register counted 137,519 people named Heidi in 2020, about 1 in 2.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Heidi compared with other names?
- In Norway, Heidi is the 61st most common given name of 25,788 given names recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Heidi?
- A machine transcription gives /haɪdi/ (IPA) for English.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/heidiThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Heidi” — the 61st most common given name in Norway. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.