Heath
A boys’ name of Old English origin, meaning dweller on the heath or moorland.
How Heath has moved
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| Year | US rank |
|---|---|
| 2015 | #833 |
| 2016 | #875 |
| 2017 | #889 |
| 2018 | #937 |
| 2019 | #947 |
| 2020 | #987 |
| 2021 | #962 |
| 2022 | #861 |
| 2024 | #848 |
| 2025 | #932 |
Heath by the numbers
In 2025, 61 babies in England and Wales were named Heath. In the US, 241 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given noticeably more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its American peak was 1,249 babies in 1974, so it is a 1970s name that has since fallen a long way.
At its height, in 1975, about 1 in 1,300 American boys born that year was called Heath.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Heath. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Other names that mean a meadow or field
Like Heath, each of these has a meadow or field in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
- Rileyvaliant; rye clearing7,797 in the US (2017)
- Braydenbroad valley; a modern respelling of Braden5,153 in the US (2017)
- Bentleymeadow of bent grass3,945 in the US (2017)
- Haydenvalley with hay3,623 in the US (2017)
- Wesleywestern meadow3,607 in the US (2017)
- Ryleerye clearing; a respelling of Ryley2,971 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Heath
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