Heyward
Heyward is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 872nd, in 1903.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192843 births
- Best rank
- #872in 1903
- Since 1896
- 2,018people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,018 boys have been named Heyward in the United States since 1896, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1928, with 43 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 43 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1943, and the 1920s alone account for 17%. It has spent 3 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Heyward | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 11 | |
| 1900s | 45 | |
| 1910s | 196 | |
| 1920s | 343 | |
| 1930s | 330 | |
| 1940s | 316 | |
| 1950s | 301 | |
| 1960s | 195 | |
| 1970s | 109 | |
| 1980s | 86 | |
| 1990s | 35 | |
| 2000s | 5 | |
| 2010s | 32 | |
| 2020s | 14 |
In 1928, its biggest year
Heyward was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1928 were Robert, John, James, William and Charles. See all of 1928.
Names that rose and fell with Heyward
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Teddiepeak 1940
- Loranpeak 1943
- Feltonpeak 1948
- Onealpeak 1932
- Reynoldspeak 1923
- Collispeak 1952
- Altonpeak 1937
- Ezellpeak 1951
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.