Heathcliff
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Meaning
surname-style, "heath cliff"; Wuthering Heights' tempestuous, obsessive lover
How popular is Heathcliff around the world?
In the United States, 16 babies were named Heathcliff between 2020 and 2025. In England and Wales, 3 boys named Heathcliff were born in 2025, ranked 5,137th among boys that year.
Heathcliff is on the official records of the United States and England and Wales.
United States
1 in 1.4M
In the United States, 16 babies were named Heathcliff between 2020 and 2025.
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Heathcliff has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration
England and Wales
1 in 200,000
In England and Wales, 3 boys named Heathcliff were born in 2025, ranked 5,137th among boys that year.
The count never rose above 8 in a year, too few to chart.
Birth registrations in England and Wales (not the whole UK); exact spellings are counted separately, and any spelling under 3 in a year is withheld at source. Source: Office for National Statistics, baby names in England and Wales
Not on the record in Spain, Mexico City, Argentina, Puerto Rico, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland and Poland: those registries withhold small counts, so rare uses may sit below their floors.
Not on the Chile record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 5 registrations in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the Montevideo record for 1940 to 2011: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years. Not on the France record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 20 births in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the South Australia record for 1944 to 2017: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years. Not on the Austria record for 1984 to 2025: Statistik Austria publishes every first name down to a single birth, so this name was not given there in those years (before 2010 the record covers babies with Austrian citizenship only). Not on Norway’s list: Statistics Norway lists only first names carried by 200 or more living people, so rarer names are not shown.
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