Dazbo, Heather was not a common US name until "nature" names became popular. It reminds me of the family of Keeping Up Appearances... Rose, Hyacinth, etc. Flower, plant, animal, "nature" names became popular in the US during the hippie revolution. One neighbor I had rebelled against her parents by legally changing her name, Kathy, to Topaz.

I just watched a rerun of the movie "Flash From the Past" last night. The character who has emerged from being raised all his life in a fallout shelter, educated in his parent's 1950's culture, emerges and meets a woman whose name is Heather... "My, I don't think I've ever heard that name before." (big laugh)