Hughie
Hughie is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 724th, in 1888.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192548 births
- Best rank
- #724in 1888
- Since 1888
- 1,669people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,669 boys have been named Hughie in the United States since 1888, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1925, with 48 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 48 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1933, and the 1920s alone account for 23%. It has spent 15 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Hughie | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 14 | |
| 1890s | 44 | |
| 1900s | 52 | |
| 1910s | 251 | |
| 1920s | 377 | |
| 1930s | 298 | |
| 1940s | 239 | |
| 1950s | 191 | |
| 1960s | 112 | |
| 1970s | 50 | |
| 1980s | 28 | |
| 1990s | 5 | |
| 2020s | 8 |
In 1925, its biggest year
Hughie was the 991st most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1925 were Robert, John, William, James and Charles. See all of 1925.
Names that rose and fell with Hughie
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Merlpeak 1922
- Hermonpeak 1920
- Garnettpeak 1920
- Clairpeak 1923
- Virglepeak 1924
- Virgilpeak 1921
- Lesterpeak 1918
- Vesterpeak 1922
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.