Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Hugo” in the USA?

Number of people named “Hugo” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Hugo” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Hugo” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Hugo” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Hugo” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Hugo” by birth year

This chart shows how “Hugo” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 24 0.000119116 24 -100%
1881 36 0.000186831 36 -100%
1882 19 0.000085766 19 -100%
1883 38 0.000175159 38 -100%
1884 17 0.000069826 17 -100%
1885 34 0.000141164 34 -100%
1886 19 0.000074418 19 -100%
1887 30 0.000121265 30 -100%
1888 27 0.000090158 27 -100%
1889 33 0.000114208 33 -100%
1890 43 0.000142667 43 -100%
1891 27 0.000094184 27 -100%
1892 37 0.000110655 37 -100%
1893 36 0.000110693 36 -100%
1894 32 0.000094482 32 -100%
1895 39 0.000111105 39 -100%
1896 31 0.000086717 31 -100%
1897 23 0.000066291 23 -100%
1898 25 0.000065539 25 -100%
1899 18 0.000053061 18 -100%
1900 23 0.000051082 23 -100%
1901 30 0.000086752 30 -100%
1902 26 0.00006723 26 -100%
1903 19 0.000049843 19 -100%
1904 26 0.000064439 26 -100%
1905 16 0.000037743 16 -100%
1906 27 0.000063018 27 -100%
1907 23 0.000049421 23 -100%
1908 31 0.00006344 31 -100%
1909 30 0.000058683 30 -100%
1910 39 0.000066022 39 -100%
1911 59 0.000091575 59 -100%
1912 107 0.000108293 107 -100%
1913 117 0.000102892 117 -100%
1914 169 0.000119321 169 -100%
1915 195 0.000106416 195 -100%
1916 200 0.00010339 200 -100%
1917 183 0.000091192 183 -100%
1918 184 0.000084749 184 -100%
1919 159 0.000075347 159 -100%
1920 161 0.000071156 161 -100%
1921 201 0.0000861 201 -100%
1922 139 0.000060721 139 -100%
1923 151 0.000065581 151 -100%
1924 159 0.000066762 159 -100%
1925 157 0.000067287 157 -100%
1926 159 0.000069254 159 -100%
1927 132 0.000056912 132 -100%
1928 132 0.000058383 132 -100%
1929 152 0.000069338 152 -100%
1930 143 0.000064319 143 -100%
1931 98 0.000046569 98 -100%
1932 97 0.000045943 97 -100%
1933 75 0.00003751 75 -100%
1934 66 0.000031779 66 -100%
1935 75 0.000035887 75 -100%
1936 72 0.000034656 72 -100%
1937 77 0.000036139 77 -100%
1938 57 0.000025762 57 -100%
1939 52 0.000023599 52 -100%
1940 41 0.000017805 41 -100%
1941 48 0.000019701 48 -100%
1942 49 0.000017937 49 -100%
1943 66 0.000023383 66 -100%
1944 46 0.0000171 46 -100%
1945 63 0.000023748 63 -100%
1946 59 0.000018465 59 -100%
1947 55 0.000015268 55 -100%
1948 45 0.000013034 45 -100%
1949 57 0.000016357 57 -100%
1950 59 0.000016841 59 -100%
1951 71 0.000019274 71 -100%
1952 81 0.000021327 81 -100%
1953 72 0.000018684 72 -100%
1954 80 0.000020097 80 -100%
1955 79 0.000019676 79 -100%
1956 73 0.000017705 73 -100%
1957 91 0.000021656 91 -100%
1958 89 0.000021529 89 -100%
1959 99 0.00002381 99 -100%
1960 96 0.000023111 96 -100%
1961 96 0.000023176 96 -100%
1962 121 0.000029985 121 -100%
1963 108 0.000027285 108 -100%
1964 103 0.000026494 103 -100%
1965 122 0.000033651 122 -100%
1966 123 0.000035389 123 -100%
1967 118 0.000034758 118 -100%
1968 156 0.000046176 156 -100%
1969 155 0.0000446 155 -100%
1970 162 0.000044919 162 -100%
1971 204 0.000059434 204 -100%
1972 175 0.000055679 175 -100%
1973 215 0.000071266 215 -100%
1974 251 0.000082566 251 -100%
1975 241 0.000079817 241 -100%
1976 242 0.000079755 242 -100%
1977 255 0.000080277 255 -100%
1978 220 0.000069316 220 -100%
1979 304 0.000091374 304 -100%
1980 340 0.000098708 340 -100%
1981 426 0.000123144 426 -100%
1982 355 0.000101198 5 350 -97%
1983 293 0.0000846 293 -100%
1984 298 0.000085417 298 -100%
1985 344 0.000096383 344 -100%
1986 368 0.000103456 368 -100%
1987 374 0.000103727 5 369 -97%
1988 421 0.000113936 421 -100%
1989 524 0.0001363 524 -100%
1990 558 0.000141177 6 552 -98%
1991 566 0.000145305 566 -100%
1992 619 0.000161144 6 613 -98%
1993 595 0.000157813 8 587 -97%
1994 548 0.000147405 548 -100%
1995 528 0.000144177 528 -100%
1996 519 0.000142301 519 -100%
1997 530 0.000146177 530 -100%
1998 570 0.000154967 570 -100%
1999 598 0.00016189 598 -100%
2000 638 0.000168787 638 -100%
2001 637 0.000170167 637 -100%
2002 715 0.000191264 715 -100%
2003 727 0.000191199 727 -100%
2004 759 0.000198643 759 -100%
2005 796 0.00020703 796 -100%
2006 811 0.000204995 811 -100%
2007 740 0.000185107 740 -100%
2008 779 0.000198185 779 -100%
2009 722 0.000188997 722 -100%
2010 616 0.000166678 616 -100%
2011 618 0.000168954 618 -100%
2012 639 0.000174716 639 -100%
2013 656 0.00017994 656 -100%
2014 695 0.000187515 695 -100%
2015 708 0.000191304 708 -100%
2016 723 0.000197073 723 -100%
2017 750 0.00020972 750 -100%
2018 733 0.000208482 733 -100%
2019 648 0.000186693 648 -100%
2020 715 0.000214035 6 709 -98%
2021 714 0.000210747 714 -100%
2022 799 0.000236171 799 -100%
2023 769 0.000232242 769 -100%
2024 797 0.000239447 797 -100%

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