Girl · Old High German
Heidi
Say it: HY-dee
Meaning
German pet form of Adelheid ('noble kind').
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Johanna Spyri's novel Heidi, whose heroine is an Adelheid, turned the pet form into an international name.
Its wave through time
Fading since the 1970s
In the United States
- 145,343 babies given this name since 1929
- At its height in 1974, about 1 in 313 girls
- 801 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
| English | Heidi |
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Famous bearers
- Heidi Klum, German model
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Where this comes from
- Well-known works of literature
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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