Haidee
Feminine · “A literary name”
Haidee is a literary name of Greek islands and revolutions: the Greek princess Haydée of The Count of Monte Cristo, and a Cuban revolutionary who founded one of Latin America's great cultural institutions.
How old is the name Haidee?
Haidee first appears in US birth records in 1896 — 129 years ago. The typical Haidee alive today was born around 1997, making them about 28 years old. About 600 people named Haidee are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Haidee most popular?
Haidee peaked in 1896, reaching #1583 nationally. See the whole 1896 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Haidée to Haidee
The story of Haidee
In The Count of Monte Cristo, published in 1844, Alexandre Dumas gave his hero a companion called Haydée, the daughter of an Albanian pasha betrayed and sold into slavery, whose testimony brings down the man who ruined her father. In Cuba Haydée Santamaría fought in the failed attack on the Moncada barracks in 1953, in which her brother and fiancé were killed, and after the revolution she founded the Casa de las Américas, which published and brought together writers from across Latin America. Haidee has been used in America since the end of the nineteenth century.
Meaningscholars disagree
A literary name, perhaps from Greek aidos, 'modesty'
The name first appears in literature; it is sometimes linked to Greek aidoios, 'modest, respected', but the source is not settled.
How the name formed
- Haidée
- Haidee
Related forms: Haydée · Haydée
Pronouncing Haidee
HAY-dee
Two syllables with the stress on the first; Spanish speakers say eye-DEH.
Nicknames for Haidee
Limited
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1896
- Most girls named
- 201126 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1583reached in 1896
- Change vs 2021
- −16.7%5 in 2024, from 6
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Haidee in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Haydée in French — spelling variant
- Haydée in Spanish — spelling variant
Haidees among us
people named Haidee are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Haidee sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- A literary name with remarkable bearers.
- Distinctive without being hard to say.
- Used across several languages.
- People will hear Heidi and write it that way.
- English and Spanish pronunciations differ.
- Its meaning is not settled.
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- How many Haidees are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Haidee are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Haidee in 2025?
- Haidee is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Haidee will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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