Heidi

Heidi is a German and Swiss diminutive of Adelheid, the source of the English Adelaide, from the Germanic elements adal, meaning noble, and heid, meaning kind or type. The name is closely tied to Johanna Spyri’s novel Heidi, in which an orphaned girl goes to live with her grandfather in the Swiss Alps and befriends the goatherd Peter and a sick girl named Clara. The book was translated into many languages and adapted for film, television and animation. Other bearers include the model Heidi Klum. In Scandinavia, Heidi is also used as an independent name.