THE MEANING & THE CONTEXT
The story behind Heart
Heart is recorded as a female given name in Tagalog and Cebuano. The source gives a linguistic connection through English, specifically the form heart. Quoted root glosses describe elements in the etymology, not an automatic translation of the complete personal name.
Pronunciation & syllables
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Tagalog
- /ˈhaɾt/Standard-Tagalog
- [ˈhaɹt̪]Standard-Tagalog
Heart1 source divisions
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Origin and name formation
Language-specific accounts from the dictionary. A shared spelling can have more than one history.
TagalogEtymology & source
Borrowed from English heart, from Middle English herte, from Old English heorte (“heart”), from Proto-Germanic *hertô (“heart”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱḗr (“heart”).
a female given name from English
CebuanoEtymology & source
From English heart, from Middle English herte, from Old English heorte (“heart”), from Proto-Germanic *hertô (“heart”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱḗr (“heart”).
a female given name from English
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki/Wiktextract. Source accounts remain in their original English; editorial summaries and filters are adapted. Attribution and downloads
PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Heart in the birth records
Exact spelling, stated year, published top-ten tables. Read the counts as individual snapshots.
Available publications: 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. No 2021 count is inferred. Sex categories follow the official tables, independently of dictionary gender labels. Explore the official tables →
Similar names to Heart
Names with a similar opening or ending, ordered by spelling distance. Similar spelling does not imply the same meaning or origin.
Names in this collection
- Art♂Name formation documented in dictionary sources
- Bart·Name formation documented in dictionary sources
- Heath♂Name formation documented in dictionary sources
- Henri♂Name formation documented in dictionary sources
- Henry♂Name formation documented in dictionary sources
- Hero♂♀Name formation documented in dictionary sources
- Mart♂Name formation documented in dictionary sources
- Atewart·Recorded Philippine given-name form
What rhymes with Heart?
No dictionary-confirmed rhyme match is available for this spelling in the current catalogue.
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- Wiktionary contributors — Heart (Tagalog) (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name sense and separately attributed etymology; no birth-frequency claim.
- Wiktionary contributors — Heart (Cebuano) (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name sense and separately attributed etymology; no birth-frequency claim.