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Globally, ヒース (Heath , Heth , Gies ) is a common masculine forename. The first name ヒース is characteristic of Australia, where it is quite a rare masculine name, the United States, and New Zealand. Not in comparison with a country's population, the name is most common in the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom. More prevalently, ヒース is the last name as well as the forename.
ヒース is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Heth , the figure from the Bible; father of Hittites, Genesis 10; Heath Braxton , the soap opera character, Home and Away and Heath Carroll , character in Blue Water High.