Heiress
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- AIR-is
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #3,388 for girls
Heiress is a girls' name of English origin, meaning “female heir”. In 2025 it ranked 3,388th for girls in the US (45 babies).
What does Heiress mean?
English: English word, from Latin heres 'heir'
“female heir”
Is Heiress a girl's or a boy's name?
Heiress is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 45 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Heiress in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #3,388among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 45about 1 in 36,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 49% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 45 girls in the US were named Heiress, making it the 3,388th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,196th. Its busiest year was 2019, with 95 girls. It first appears in the records in 2004.
Half of all the girls named Heiress in the US since 1880 were born between 2015 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 145 girls in the US were given Heiress or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,301, up from #3,388 for this spelling alone.
Heiress in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 45 | #3,388 |
| 2024 | 31 | #4,471 |
| 2023 | 48 | #3,329 |
| 2022 | 47 | #3,364 |
| 2021 | 62 | #2,751 |
| 2020 | 82 | #2,196 |
| 2019 | 95 | #2,011 |
| 2018 | 66 | #2,610 |
| 2017 | 53 | #3,053 |
| 2016 | 34 | #4,249 |
| 2015 | 15 | #7,610 |
| 2014 | 26 | #5,161 |
| 2013 | 25 | #5,315 |
| 2012 | 13 | #8,628 |
| 2011 | 16 | #7,432 |
| 2010 | 23 | #5,769 |
| 2009 | 18 | #7,063 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,404 |
| 2007 | 17 | #7,390 |
| 2006 | 11 | #9,897 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,003 |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,617 |
Names like Heiress
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Harlow Collins Harper Halo Sevyn Palmer Oakley Briar Hadley Henley Londyn Miller
Other spellings of Heiress
More English names
Lily Evelyn Hudson Ivy Grace Violet Willow Daisy Poppy Riley Mason Cooper Ruby Hallie Hazel Carter
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, “Heiress: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/heiress, updated 20 October 2026.