Entry № 4166 · Germanic origin

Heidi Heidi — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ HI-dee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Germanic
Meaning
"Noble kind"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Germanic)

A name that means "noble kind".

Heidi is the German short form of Adelheid — itself the Germanic original of Adelaide and Alice, meaning "noble kind" or "of noble birth." Heidi has been used in Germanic-speaking countries for centuries.

Today it sits in the U.S. top 500.

Noble kind. The Alpine orphan everyone knows.

The name in its native script.

Heidi
Transliteration
Heidi
Pronunciation
/ ˈhaɪ.di /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Heidi stands.

Heidi does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Heidis before her.

Real people
Heidi Klum
German-American model and TV personality.
born 1973
In fiction
Heidi
Heroine of Johanna Spyri's Heidi.
1881 novel

Names connected to Heidi.

The number behind Heidi.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Heidi reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.