Heath
Heath is a boy name of English origin, meaning The open moorland.
What Heath means
The open moorland.
Heath sits at 5 letters, and ends on a consonant, which gives it a firmer stop.
Where Heath comes from
English names come from a long layering of Anglo-Saxon, Norman French, and biblical sources. Many began as surnames, place names, or occupations before they were ever used as first names.
Heath is recorded as English in origin. Browse other English names.
How popular is Heath?
Heath sits outside the top 100 boy names we currently track. For many parents that is the appeal: a name with genuine history behind it that has not been picked up by everyone at once.
The character of Heath
We group Heath under the natural world and Earth — an unusual pairing, and often the reason a name feels the way it does. Each theme opens a full list of names sharing it.
Names like Heath
These share Heath's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Holden — From the deep valley.
- Bradley — Broad meadow.
- Camden — Winding valley.
- Canyon — A deep gorge in the earth.
- Dale — From the valley.
- Landon — From the long hill.
- Ridge — From the mountain crest.
- Stanley — Dweller by the stony meadow.
- Bryn — Hill; a high mound.
- Glen — From the valley.
- Logan — From the little hollow.
- Avani — The earth.
More English names
- Hazel — The hazelnut tree.
- Heather — The flowering heath shrub.
- Hayden — From the hedged valley.
- Holden — From the deep valley.
- Hawthorn — The flowering hawthorn tree.
- Holly — The holly tree; holiness.
- Haven — A safe refuge.
- Holt — Of the woodland.
- Harvey — Battle-worthy and strong.
- Hope — Optimism; trust in the future.