Heiress comes from the Modern American tradition, meaning Female inheritor of wealth or status..
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How popular is Heiress?
2019peak year
Heiress has settled into a steady rhythm — neither rising sharply nor fading, holding a consistent place in U.S. birth records. It currently ranks well outside the top 1,000 (around #3594), with about 53 babies named Heiress each year. In 2019, 95 babies received the name (ranked #2021). Total registrations across all years since 1880: roughly 714.
Year-by-year registrations1880–2024 · U.S. Social Security data
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