Heiden
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- HAY-den
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #8,906 for boys
Heiden is a boys' name of English origin, meaning “hay valley”. In 2025 it ranked 8,906th for boys in the US (8 babies).
What does Heiden mean?
English: variant of Hayden, an English place-name surname
“hay valley”
Is Heiden a girl's or a boy's name?
Heiden is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Heiden in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #8,906among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 8about 1 in 210,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 8 boys in the US were named Heiden, making it the 8,906th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 12,016th. Its busiest year was 2024, with 16 boys. It first appears in the records in 2012.
Half of all the boys named Heiden in the US since 1880 were born between 2014 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 2,530 boys in the US were given Heiden or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #160, up from #8,906 for this spelling alone.
Heiden in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #8,906 |
| 2024 | 16 | #5,655 |
| 2023 | 8 | #8,916 |
| 2022 | 5 | #12,322 |
| 2021 | 5 | #12,141 |
| 2020 | 5 | #12,016 |
| 2019 | 5 | #12,138 |
| 2018 | 6 | #10,754 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 6 | #10,711 |
| 2013 | 8 | #8,784 |
| 2012 | 7 | #9,703 |
Names like Heiden
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Kayden Raiden Brecken Cassian Deacon Rayden Brayden Finnegan Aiden Boden Cannon Braylen
Other spellings of Heiden
Names related to Heiden
More English names
Lily Evelyn Hudson Ivy Harper Grace Violet Willow Daisy Poppy Riley Oakley Mason Cooper Ruby Hallie
Sources
Figures from 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, “Heiden: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/heiden, updated 20 October 2026.