Heid
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from ahd. heida 'heath' or ahd
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈhaɪd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Heid is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 1.1M(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 1.4M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 131 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.1M (inferred from the name graph)
147 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from ahd. heida 'heath' or ahd. heit 'kind, nature'
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Heid 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 147 | 1 in 1.4M | 147 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 9 | 1 in 1.1M | 9 | — | — |
| FR France | — | — | — | 52 | Heid | 131 |
| US United States | — | — | — | 4K | Heid | 26 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | — | — | — | Heid | 3 |
| BF Burkina Faso | #711 | — | — | — | Heid | 1 |
| ML Mali | #287 | — | — | — | Heid | 1 |
| BJ Benin | — | — | — | — | Heid | 1 |
147 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Heid is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In vep, partitive of hö
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In non, gleaming
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In pdc, heathen
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Heid Gjöstein Resib. 1939NONorwegian archaeologist
- Heid Leganger-Krogstadb. 1950NONorwegian religious educator and university professor
- Heid Elin Odlandb. 1982NONorwegian swimmer
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 26 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 147 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 132 | #31,519 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 131 | #18,660 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 118 | #33,478 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 117 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1980 | 79 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 38 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1990 | 30 | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 26 | #43,079 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 9 | #38,051 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Where does the name Heid come from?
- from ahd. heida 'heath' or ahd. heit 'kind, nature' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Heid?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈhaɪd/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Heid a male or female name?
- Heid 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 Heid mean?
- Recorded meaning: from ahd. heida 'heath' or ahd.
- In which country does Heid have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 147 people named Heid, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Heid most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Heid is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 1.1 million people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Heid?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 147 people named Heid in 2022, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
- How common is Heid compared with other names?
- In Mali, Heid is the 287th most common given name of 2,109 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/heidThe 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, “Heid” — the 287th most common given name in Mali. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.