Humphrey
Humphrey is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 8 births. Its best rank was 678th, in 1893.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 80.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 192422 births
- Best rank
- #678in 1893
- Since 1880
- 1,085people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,085 boys have been named Humphrey in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1924, with 22 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1945, and the 1920s alone account for 14%. It has spent 10 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Humphrey | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 50 | |
| 1890s | 32 | |
| 1900s | 29 | |
| 1910s | 137 | |
| 1920s | 151 | |
| 1930s | 97 | |
| 1940s | 101 | |
| 1950s | 142 | |
| 1960s | 100 | |
| 1970s | 57 | |
| 1980s | 56 | |
| 1990s | 38 | |
| 2000s | 25 | |
| 2010s | 41 | |
| 2020s | 29 |
In 1924, its biggest year
Humphrey was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1924 were Robert, John, William, James and Charles. See all of 1924.
Names that rose and fell with Humphrey
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Minorpeak 1920
- Wellingtonpeak 1922
- Lewpeak 1959
- Lemuelpeak 1921
- Almonpeak 1918
- Alcidepeak 1924
- Colonelpeak 1920
- Perleypeak 1915
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.