Given name & surname
Heili
Heili is a feminine given name. It is used in Estonian.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Heili is a form of Eili. Eili comes from Norwegian, and ultimately from Finnish.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2004. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Heili through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 0 boys · 5 girls
- Most popular year
- 2004
- 5 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 2004. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 142 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.
Heili’s family of names
In Estonian usage, Heili has a related form in EILI.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Heili
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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