girls:
244 births since 2004
#5472 (4th percentile)
overall:
244 births since 2004
#7495 (3rd percentile)
The name Heer is the #7,495 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 244 recorded births since 2004. This represents the 3.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,472 (4.2% percentile) for all time with 244 births since 2004.
Heer first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2004 (first recorded for girls in 2004). Birth data for Heer is available in 19 out of the 20 years between 2004 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Heer reached its peak popularity in 2015, achieving the 1.7% percentile (ranked #944) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 2015, with 11 births per million (ranked 1.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Heer ranks #935 for girls (1.3% percentile) with 10 births per million, which is 90.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Heer".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Heer. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 45.5% confident that Heer is pronounced as hear, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is hihr, at 27.3% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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