Hamilton
Hamilton was given to 38 boys in 2025, #3,151 among boys’ names; 6,517 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,080 Americans named Hamilton and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (63% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 15 and 47.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Hamilton by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Hamilton mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Hamilton is “a male given name transferred from the surname.” Its etymology gives the senses “blunt, flat-topped” (hamel) and “hill” (dūne).
From Old English *Hameldūne, from hamel (“blunt, flat-topped”) + dūne (“hill”). The Scottish surname is from the place in Leicestershire. The dollar-bill sense is from the portrait of Alexander Hamilton featured on it.
/ˈhæməltən/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Hamilton?
#3,151 among boys’ names, 2025
Hamilton fell from #1,771 in 2015 to #3,151 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 44.9 to 22.2 per million.
98 babies in 2016, the peak
Hamilton peaked in 2016, when 98 boys were given it, #1,630 among boys’ names. The 38 births of 2025 are 39% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 38 | #3,151 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 50 | #2,647 | 0.03 |
| 2023 | 48 | #2,708 | 0.03 |
| 2022 | 68 | #2,154 | 0.04 |
| 2021 | 73 | #2,030 | 0.04 |
| 2020 | 56 | #2,372 | 0.03 |
| 2019 | 81 | #1,854 | 0.05 |
| 2018 | 80 | #1,877 | 0.04 |
| 2017 | 83 | #1,814 | 0.04 |
| 2016 | 98 | #1,630 | 0.05 |
Every recorded year (146)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 86 | #1,771 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 93 | #1,660 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 86 | #1,717 | 0.05 |
| 2012 | 56 | #2,307 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 71 | #1,952 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 59 | #2,218 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 78 | #1,867 | 0.04 |
| 2008 | 92 | #1,670 | 0.05 |
| 2007 | 63 | #2,146 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 75 | #1,829 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 59 | #2,087 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 64 | #1,914 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 56 | #2,034 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 55 | #2,002 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 78 | #1,548 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 57 | #1,856 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 63 | #1,673 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 66 | #1,585 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 67 | #1,537 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 70 | #1,455 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 69 | #1,434 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 89 | #1,220 | 0.05 |
| 1993 | 67 | #1,420 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 68 | #1,371 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 73 | #1,311 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 59 | #1,470 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 66 | #1,348 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 59 | #1,342 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 77 | #1,098 | 0.04 |
| 1986 | 55 | #1,326 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 59 | #1,247 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 50 | #1,331 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 56 | #1,225 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 62 | #1,166 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 65 | #1,139 | 0.04 |
| 1980 | 66 | #1,115 | 0.04 |
| 1979 | 59 | #1,181 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 51 | #1,263 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 31 | #1,720 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 37 | #1,478 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 41 | #1,364 | 0.03 |
| 1974 | 22 | #2,012 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 26 | #1,750 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 29 | #1,617 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 36 | #1,426 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 41 | #1,304 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 45 | #1,174 | 0.03 |
| 1968 | 34 | #1,327 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 34 | #1,296 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 30 | #1,408 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 36 | #1,283 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 34 | #1,358 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 35 | #1,330 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 35 | #1,322 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 38 | #1,286 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 31 | #1,446 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 21 | #1,779 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 31 | #1,407 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 25 | #1,598 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 37 | #1,267 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 31 | #1,384 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 41 | #1,173 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 30 | #1,390 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 42 | #1,138 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 35 | #1,249 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 45 | #1,054 | 0.03 |
| 1949 | 32 | #1,286 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 44 | #1,065 | 0.03 |
| 1947 | 50 | #1,016 | 0.03 |
| 1946 | 35 | #1,182 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 39 | #1,022 | 0.03 |
| 1944 | 39 | #1,062 | 0.03 |
| 1943 | 31 | #1,245 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 41 | #1,066 | 0.03 |
| 1941 | 37 | #1,075 | 0.03 |
| 1940 | 33 | #1,167 | 0.03 |
| 1939 | 31 | #1,177 | 0.03 |
| 1938 | 32 | #1,154 | 0.03 |
| 1937 | 38 | #1,040 | 0.04 |
| 1936 | 37 | #1,058 | 0.04 |
| 1935 | 29 | #1,260 | 0.03 |
| 1934 | 40 | #1,030 | 0.04 |
| 1933 | 47 | #912 | 0.05 |
| 1932 | 28 | #1,303 | 0.03 |
| 1931 | 57 | #833 | 0.05 |
| 1930 | 48 | #986 | 0.04 |
| 1929 | 53 | #925 | 0.05 |
| 1928 | 47 | #1,011 | 0.04 |
| 1927 | 52 | #968 | 0.05 |
| 1926 | 67 | #807 | 0.06 |
| 1925 | 65 | #826 | 0.06 |
| 1924 | 78 | #756 | 0.07 |
| 1923 | 62 | #862 | 0.06 |
| 1922 | 66 | #845 | 0.06 |
| 1921 | 74 | #783 | 0.07 |
| 1920 | 61 | #881 | 0.06 |
| 1919 | 78 | #719 | 0.08 |
| 1918 | 69 | #785 | 0.07 |
| 1917 | 78 | #682 | 0.08 |
| 1916 | 76 | #683 | 0.09 |
| 1915 | 67 | #725 | 0.08 |
| 1914 | 66 | #626 | 0.10 |
| 1913 | 41 | #726 | 0.08 |
| 1912 | 45 | #618 | 0.10 |
| 1911 | 24 | #632 | 0.11 |
| 1910 | 13 | #897 | 0.07 |
| 1909 | 10 | #977 | 0.06 |
| 1908 | 29 | #458 | 0.19 |
| 1907 | 11 | #837 | 0.07 |
| 1906 | 12 | #727 | 0.09 |
| 1905 | 11 | #764 | 0.08 |
| 1904 | 9 | #837 | 0.07 |
| 1903 | 17 | #537 | 0.14 |
| 1902 | 13 | #624 | 0.11 |
| 1901 | 13 | #573 | 0.12 |
| 1900 | 19 | #566 | 0.13 |
| 1899 | 15 | #509 | 0.14 |
| 1898 | 11 | #679 | 0.09 |
| 1897 | 13 | #594 | 0.12 |
| 1896 | 7 | #930 | 0.06 |
| 1895 | 15 | #539 | 0.13 |
| 1894 | 7 | #901 | 0.06 |
| 1893 | 6 | #955 | 0.05 |
| 1892 | 7 | #895 | 0.06 |
| 1891 | 14 | #485 | 0.14 |
| 1890 | 8 | #776 | 0.07 |
| 1889 | 18 | #436 | 0.16 |
| 1888 | 6 | #968 | 0.05 |
| 1887 | 11 | #563 | 0.11 |
| 1886 | 17 | #439 | 0.15 |
| 1885 | 8 | #731 | 0.07 |
| 1884 | 18 | #440 | 0.16 |
| 1883 | 23 | #347 | 0.22 |
| 1882 | 15 | #479 | 0.13 |
| 1881 | 15 | #449 | 0.15 |
| 1880 | 17 | #432 | 0.15 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Hamilton a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Hamilton has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 146 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Hamilton: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hamilton, and how old are they?
4,080 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 63% of the 6,517 Americans ever recorded as Hamilton. The median Hamilton alive today is 30 years old; half are between 15 and 47.
The 2020 Census counted 4,608 people named Hamilton (127 women and girls, 4,481 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,987 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 127 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 437 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 548 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 993 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,040 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 933 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Hamilton born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 6 | #2,297 | 0.6× |
Where Hamilton is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Hamilton is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1910 it was given 1.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Hamilton with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Hamilton
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Hamilton and names like it
- Compare Hamilton and MosesBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sHamilton peaked in 2016.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Hamilton since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Hamilton: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Hamilton.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Hamilton alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with HMost given first.