Heidi

From Swiss German Heidi, a pet form of Adelheid, equivalent of English Adelaide and Alice. The name became internationally popular due to the children's book Heidi (1880).

• IPA^(key): /ˈhaɪdi/

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• Rhymes: -aɪdi

Heidi

1. A female given name from the Germanic languages.
   • 1983, John le Carré, The Little Drummer Girl, Pan Books, →ISBN, page 142:

     "Heidi?" Kurtz echoed. "Heidi? That's a damned odd name for an English elder sister, isn't it?" "Not for Heidi, it isn't," she replied buoyantly, and scored an immediate laugh from the kids beyond the lighting. Heidi because her parents went to Switzerland for their honeymoon, she explained; and Switzerland was where Heidi was conceived. "Among the edelweiss," she added, with a sigh.

   • 2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in the Guardian‎:

     But the purported rise in violent videos online has led some MPs to campaign for courts to have more power to remove or block material on YouTube. The Labour MP Heidi Alexander said she was appalled after a constituent was robbed at knifepoint, and the attackers could be found brandishing weapons and rapping about gang violence online.

From English Heidi, from Swiss German Heidi, a pet form of Adelheid, equivalent of English Adelaide and Alice.

Heidi

1. a female given name from English [in turn from the Germanic languages]

From German Heidi.

Heidi

1. a female given name

• Danskernes Navne, based on CPR data: 17 830 females with the given name Heidi have been registered in Denmark between about 1890 (=the population alive in 1967) and January 2005, with the frequency peak in the 1970s. Accessed on 19 May 2011.

From German Heidi, also seen as a variant of Hedi, from Hedvig.

Heidi

1. a female given name

Ultimately, from Alemannic German Heidi.

Heidi f

1. a female given name

Matronymics

• son of Heidi: Heidiarson
• daughter of Heidi: Heidiardóttir

From German Heidi.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhei̯di/, [ˈhe̞i̯di]
• Rhymes: -eidi
• Syllabification^(key): Hei‧di

Heidi

1. a female given name
   • 2010, Ritva Kokkola, Palasin kynnykseltä. Novelleja, Myllylahti Oy, →ISBN, pages 86–87:

     Maija-täti sanoi, että heillä päin koirille ei annettu vierasmaalaisia nimiä. Eikä tietysti lapsillekaan. Sitten kun olin käynyt rippikoulun, minua pyydettiin kummiksi. Ehdotin vauvan nimeksi Annea tai Heidiä tai Marikaa. Koulun takia en päässyt ristiäisiin. Pari viikkoa myöhemmin sain valokuvan, johon oli kirjoitettu Kummitädille Eilalta.

     Aunt Maija had said that they didn't give their dogs foreign names, neither their children. After I completed confirmation school, I was asked to be a godmother. I suggested Anna or Heidi or Marika as the name. I couldn't attend the christening due to confirmation school. A few weeks later I got a photo that read From Eila to grandmother.

• The most common name of women born in Finland in 1979-83.

• Heidi is the 18^th most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 21,243 female individuals (and as a middle name to 2,497 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

Originally a Swiss German diminutive of Adelheid +‎ -i

• IPA^(key): /ˈhaɪ̯di/

Heidi

1. a female given name
   • 1880 Johanna Spyri, Heidi's Lehr- und Wanderjahre. Eine Geschichte für Kinder und auch für Solche, welche die Kinder lieb haben (Friedrich Andreas Perthes, Gotha), Chapter 6 (Capitel VI. Ein neues Capitel und lauter neue Dinge), p. 95, translated as Heidi:

     „Willst du lieber Heidi heißen, oder Adelheid?“ fragte Klara.
     „Ich heiße nur Heidi und sonst Nichts“, war Heidi's Antwort.
     „So will ich dich immer so nennen“, sagte Klara; „der Name gefällt mir für dich, ich habe ihn aber nie gehört, ich habe aber auch nie ein Kind gesehen, das so aussieht wie du.

     "Would you rather be called Heidi or Adelaide?" asked Clara.
     "I am never called anything but Heidi," was the child's prompt answer.
     "Then I shall always call you by that name," said Clara, "it suits you. I have never heard it before, but neither have I ever seen a child like you before.

• Heide, Heidemarie

From German Heidi at the end of the 19th century.

Heidi

1. a female given name

• Kristoffer Kruken - Ola Stemshaug: Norsk personnamnleksikon, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo 1995, →ISBN
• Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 15 794 females with the given name Heidi living in Norway on January 1st 2011, with the frequency peak in the 1960s. Accessed on April 18th, 2011.

From German Heidi.

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Heidi c (genitive Heidis)

1. a female given name