Hiawatha
Hiawatha is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 193426 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1911
- 1,228people given the name
The story in the numbers
925 boys have been named Hiawatha in the United States since 1911, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1934, with 26 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 26 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1942, and the 1920s alone account for 17%.
Hiawatha is used for both sexes: 25% of its bearers are girls (303), most of them born around 1926.
By decade
In 1934, its biggest year
Hiawatha was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1934 were Robert, James, John, William and Richard. See all of 1934.
Names that rose and fell with Hiawatha
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Burnellpeak 1920
- Hulonpeak 1920
- Merrellpeak 1915
- Ozellpeak 1937
- Thurmonpeak 1930
- Salvadorepeak 1924
- Gordanpeak 1930
- Glenwoodpeak 1920
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.