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Meaning & Origins
From the vocabulary word denoting the hardy, brightly coloured plant (Middle English hather; the spelling was altered in the 18th century as a result of folk etymological association with heath). The name was first used in the late 19th century and became particularly popular from the mid-1940s.
| 74th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Hungarian (Hegedüs) and Jewish (from Hungary): occupational name for a player on the fiddle, Hungarian hegedü, of unexplained origin.
| 14,986th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Heater, Heathyr, Heathr, Heathre, Heatehr, Heathere, Heathar, Heathera, Heathor, Heatherr
Heger, Hege, Hegeman, Hegel, Hegemann, Hegewald, Hegedis, Hudecek, Hegele, Hegenbart
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