Heela
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- HEE-la
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,776 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #6,837 for girls
Heela is a girls' name, meaning “hope”. In 2025 it ranked 3,776th for girls in the UK (6 babies) and 6,837th for girls in the US (16 babies).
What does Heela mean?
Pashto, from hila 'hope'
“hope”
Is Heela a girl's or a boy's name?
Heela is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the UK and 16 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Heela in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #3,776among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 6about 1 in 46,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fastup 138% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 6 girls in the UK were named Heela, making it the 3,776th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,744th. Its busiest year was 2013, with 9 girls.
Half of all the girls named Heela in the UK since 1996 were born between 2011 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
Among girls in 2025, it was 3,704th in England and Wales.
Heela in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #3,776 |
| 2024 | 8 | #3,076 |
| 2023 | 5 | #4,251 |
| 2022 | 4 | #4,870 |
| 2021 | 5 | #4,148 |
| 2020 | 4 | #4,744 |
| 2019 | 1 | #7,346 |
| 2018 | 3 | #5,896 |
| 2017 | 3 | #5,998 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 6 | #3,777 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 9 | #2,796 |
| 2012 | 4 | #5,058 |
| 2011 | 8 | #3,041 |
| 2010 | 3 | #5,938 |
| 2009 | 5 | #4,141 |
| 2008 | 6 | #3,589 |
| 2007 | 5 | #3,858 |
How popular is Heela in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #6,837among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 16about 1 in 100,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 16 girls in the US were named Heela, making it the 6,837th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,948th. It first appears in the records in 2006.
2025 had the most girls named Heela of any year since it first appeared, in 2006.
Half of all the girls named Heela in the US since 1880 were born between 2015 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
Heela in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #6,837 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,247 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,481 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,276 |
| 2021 | 11 | #8,973 |
| 2020 | 11 | #8,948 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,422 |
| 2017 | 8 | #11,611 |
| 2016 | 8 | #11,776 |
| 2015 | 13 | #8,443 |
| 2014 | 8 | #11,925 |
| 2013 | 6 | #14,577 |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,477 |
| 2011 | 5 | #16,756 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,147 |
Names like Heela
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa Hafsa Ayra Hiba Abeeha Huda Rahma Irha Hawa Aiza Hawwa Husna
Names related to Heela
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Heela: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/heela, updated 20 October 2026.