Heide
2,103 recorded births · active 1948–2021
Compare Heide →Living-age distribution
The median living Heide is 56. If you meet a Heide, there's about a 70% chance they're between 40 and 66 years old.
Popularity arc
Peak Heide: 1968. Down 94% from peak.
Gender balance
Heide is almost always given to female babies — 100% female.
Rarity
Heide ranks #7,383 out of 105,966 names ever recorded by the SSA.
Geographic fingerprint
Heides are 0.6x more common in the Northeast than the national average.
Predictive modeling
Three statistical models, all fit to Heide's own SSA history plus the historical behavior of every other name in the dataset.
Peak popularity prediction
Heide's modeled peak was #1,910 in 1966 — its trend isn't projected to beat that.
Not enough continuous recent history to project a peak rank.
Name life-cycle stage
A rule-based classifier over recent growth, momentum, and peak proximity.
Heide peaked in 1968 and now sits at roughly 6% of that peak, 57 years later — a name that was genuinely common once, now mostly heard from an older generation.
Popularity survival model
Once a name reaches a rank tier, how long does it typically stay there before falling out?
Built from a Kaplan-Meier survival curve: every historical run any name has ever had above this tier, with runs still ongoing today counted as still in progress rather than as an exit.Heide isn't currently in the Top 100 tier. Estimated chance of entering it in the forecast window: 0%.
If Heide enters Top 100, chance it's still there after:
Names that do enter Top 100 have historically stayed a median of ~19 years. Based on 668 historical Top 100 runs across every name in the dataset.