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How popular is the name Heath?
Births per year, rank history and how many Heaths are alive today.
Heath (male) is an uncommon boys' name in England and Wales, ranked 615th in 2025 with 61 babies given the name. The name peaked in 2012, when 125 babies were given the name, the 349th most popular that year. Its fortunes dipped to rank 702 in 2024 before climbing back to the 615th place it holds today. Numbers have been falling in recent years.
The Heath you are most likely to meet is around 13 years old. Half of all Heaths born in England and Wales are between 7 and 16, and there are at least 1,600 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Heath - on average, only one in every 190 such rooms contains a Heath.
How many babies are named Heath each year?
Where does Heath rank among boys' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Heath most popular?
Heath peaked in 2012, when 125 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Heath?
At least 1,600 people named Heath born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Heath?
Most living Heaths are between 7 and 16; the most common age is about 13.
Is Heath becoming more or less popular?
Declining: numbers have been falling in recent years.