boy's name

Heitor

  • Gender Boy
  • Letters 6
  • Popularity Uncommon
  • Births on record 551

Ireland

#651

2025 births

Heitor is a boy's name. In 2025 it was given to 50 babies in the United States. It is used consistently but remains uncommon.

  • Peaked in 2023, when 54 babies were given the name.
  • It has been rising over the past decade.
  • Today about 1 in 66,309 babies in the United States is given this name.
  • First appears in US birth records in 2006.

Heitor over time

Births per decade in the United States, 2000s to 2020s. The striped bar is the 2020s, still in progress — it covers 2020 to 2025, not a full ten years.

272
'00 '10 '20
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Births named Heitor by decade in the United States
Decade Births
2000s 6
2010s 99
2020s (to 2025) 272

How popular is Heitor?

In 2025, Heitor was given to 50 babies in the United States. It is used consistently but remains uncommon.

Where Heitor is used

Ireland #651 5 in 2025
Canada #2,493 7 in 2020
United States #2,626 50 in 2025
France #2,979 10 in 2025
England & Wales #4,919 4 in 2025

The bar shows how near the top of each country's list the name sits, on a scale where #1 fills the row and #1,000 is a sliver. The figures beside it are the real rank and the babies recorded that year.

US figures omit any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so the rarest names are absent from the source rather than absent from use. Data & sources.

Names that peaked alongside Heitor

These names rose and fell in the same era, which is why they tend to sound like they belong together.

Parents who like Heitor also like

Names whose popularity has risen and fallen in step with Heitor over the last century — the same taste, a different name.

Heitor in other languages

The same name as it is spelled elsewhere — not shortenings, and not different names that merely sound alike. Each one has its own record here.

Italian
Ettore
Polish
Hektor

Sibling names for Heitor

Names from the same era that won't rhyme or share an initial with Heitor — the two things that make a sibling set grate.

Common questions about Heitor

How popular is the name Heitor?

In 2025, Heitor was given to 50 babies in the United States. It is used consistently but remains uncommon.

Is Heitor a girl's or a boy's name?

Heitor is given almost entirely to boys in birth records.

When was Heitor most popular?

Heitor peaked in 2023, when 54 babies were given the name. It has been rising over the past decade.

Is Heitor a good name?

That is not something records can settle, but they can tell you what you would be choosing. Heitor currently ranks #651 in the United States. It has been rising over the past decade. Everything else — how it sounds with your surname, who it reminds you of — is yours.