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I dislike it strongly, unless it's the name of a female German Shepherd. I knew a Heidi who said she was glad that her parents didn't name her the other name they were considering, Gretchen. I can't say that I agreed with her.

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Now the reason that I always think of a female German Shepherd is, I'm sure, that my family had a female German Shepherd named Heidi when I was a child. (My parents rejected my four-year-old suggestion of Mary Ann.) But although if it weren't for that I might not have the German Shepherd association, I still wouldn't like the name.