Given name & surname
Healy
“from the meadow of heather”
Healy is a variant of Hedley. One English interpretation is “from the meadow of heather.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Healy is a variant of Hedley. One English interpretation is “from the meadow of heather.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Healy is a variant of Hedley. An origin associated with Hedley is Old English.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
From Irish Ó hÉilidhe (“descendant of the claimant”), from Irish Ó hÉalaighthe (“descendant of Éaladhach”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1995. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Healy through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 38
- 0 boys · 38 girls
- Most popular year
- 1995
- 10 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 6 in 2012. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 10 in 1995. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 179 as a first name in 2020; 20,992 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Appears in
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