Heather (given name)

Heather

Flowering Calluna vulgaris, an example of the common heather from which the female name is derived.
Pronunciation	/ˈhɛðər/
Gender	Female
Origin
Word/name	English derived from Middle English, hather
Meaning	Named after the plant Heather, which are a variety of small shrubs with pink or white flowers which commonly grow in rocky areas
Other names
Related names	Heath (Pet form)

Heather is a popular English and Scottish given name for girls. It simply means "heather" from the English word for the variety of small shrubs with pink or white flowers which commonly grow in rocky areas. It is derived from Middle English hather. Heath can be used as a male given name. Heather is also a color, a light purple shade.

Persons named "Heather" include:

• Heather Angel (actress), English actress
• Heather Angel (photographer), English photographer
• Heather B. Gardner, American hip-hop artist
• Heather Bown, American volleyball player
• Heather Burge (born 1971), American basketball player
• Heather Crowe, Canadian anti-smoking campaigner
• Heather Dorsers, Canadian fashion model & Canada's Next Top Model, Cycle 1 participant
• Heather Graham, American actress
• Heather Headley, Trinidadian singer and actress
• Heather Hemmens, American actress
• Heather Hunter, American entertainer
• Heather Jones, Canadian field hockey player
• Heather Kuzmich, American fashion model & America's Next Top Model, Cycle 9 participant
• Heather Langenkamp (born 1964), American actress
• Heather Locklear (born 1961), American actress
• Heather Marks, Canadian Model
• Heather Matarazzo, American actress
• Heather Mills (born 1968), British model and activist; the second wife of Paul McCartney
• Heather Moyse (born 1978), Canadian bobsledder and rugby union player
• Heather Nova, Bermudian singer-songwriter and poet
• Heather O'Reilly (born 1985), American soccer player
• Heather O'Rourke (1975–1988), American actress
• Heather Raffo, American actress
• Heather Small, British singer
• Heather Thomas, American actress
• Heather Wallace, Canadian squash player
• Heather Whitestone, Miss America winner

Fictional characters with the name include:

• Heather Chandler, Heather Duke, and Heather McNamara, the eponymous clique from the film Heathers
• Heather Hart, a character in the novel Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick
• Heather Mason, the female protagonist in Silent Hill 3
• Heather Sinclair, an unseen character in Degrassi: The Next Generation
• Lady Heather Kessler, a recurring character in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
• Heather Stevens Williams, a character on the American soap opera The Young and the Restless
• Heather Campbell, the first love of Connor MacLeod,the main protagonist of the Highlanderfilm franchise (not to be confused with Duncan MacLeod of the television series spinoff)