Given name
Haidee
“a modest woman; one who is well-behaved”
Haidee links a character in Byron with a later association with Heidi.
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Greek interpretation is “a modest woman; one who is well-behaved.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Greek.
The story
Haidee appears in Byron’s Don Juan. A possible connection with the Greek word for “modest” belongs to that literary setting; later use can instead reflect the familiar name Heidi.
Haidee through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 603
- 0 boys · 603 girls
- Most popular year
- 2011
- 26 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 26 in 2011. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 975 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Haidee’s family of names
Haidee has a related form in Heidi. Haidee has a related form in Haydee. Haidee has a related form in Haidy.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 17
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Haidee
- Haidee TiffenNew Zealand cricketer, cricket coach and school principal (born 1979)
- Haidee WrightEnglish actress (1867-1943)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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