Hamp
Hamp was last recorded in 1996, when 6 babies were given it; 1,076 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Hamp by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Hamp?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #8,300, in 1996; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
27 babies in 1920, the peak
Hamp peaked in 1920, when 27 boys were given it, #1,441 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 6 | #8,300 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,381 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 7 | #4,127 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 10 | #2,938 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 5 | #4,198 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 10 | #2,692 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 6 | #3,781 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 6 | #3,792 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 8 | #3,147 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 7 | #3,487 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (90)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | 8 | #3,180 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 7 | #3,403 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 9 | #2,907 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 10 | #2,722 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 10 | #2,695 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 9 | #2,851 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 6 | #3,598 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 11 | #2,448 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 9 | #2,758 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 12 | #2,295 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 21 | #1,628 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 11 | #2,391 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 19 | #1,730 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 17 | #1,875 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 10 | #2,466 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 14 | #1,882 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 14 | #1,918 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 17 | #1,794 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,053 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 18 | #1,657 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 6 | #3,264 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 12 | #2,108 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 8 | #2,741 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 16 | #1,789 | 0.02 |
| 1936 | 13 | #1,997 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 11 | #2,313 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 15 | #1,885 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 26 | #1,319 | 0.03 |
| 1932 | 10 | #2,527 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 13 | #2,148 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 14 | #2,120 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 15 | #2,039 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,202 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 15 | #2,144 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 23 | #1,587 | 0.02 |
| 1925 | 20 | #1,763 | 0.02 |
| 1924 | 17 | #1,993 | 0.02 |
| 1923 | 24 | #1,566 | 0.02 |
| 1922 | 16 | #2,086 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 14 | #2,300 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 27 | #1,441 | 0.03 |
| 1919 | 20 | #1,721 | 0.02 |
| 1918 | 24 | #1,513 | 0.02 |
| 1917 | 20 | #1,666 | 0.02 |
| 1916 | 25 | #1,396 | 0.03 |
| 1915 | 22 | #1,479 | 0.03 |
| 1914 | 17 | #1,515 | 0.03 |
| 1913 | 11 | #1,727 | 0.02 |
| 1912 | 12 | #1,462 | 0.03 |
| 1911 | 10 | #1,148 | 0.04 |
| 1910 | 13 | #898 | 0.07 |
| 1909 | 14 | #778 | 0.09 |
| 1908 | 8 | #1,059 | 0.05 |
| 1907 | 14 | #719 | 0.10 |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,179 | 0.05 |
| 1905 | 9 | #868 | 0.07 |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,124 | 0.05 |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,071 | 0.05 |
| 1902 | 11 | #708 | 0.09 |
| 1900 | 13 | #709 | 0.09 |
| 1899 | 6 | #982 | 0.06 |
| 1898 | 8 | #837 | 0.07 |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,132 | 0.04 |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,164 | 0.04 |
| 1895 | 9 | #761 | 0.08 |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,151 | 0.04 |
| 1893 | 7 | #866 | 0.06 |
| 1892 | 16 | #504 | 0.13 |
| 1891 | 10 | #617 | 0.10 |
| 1890 | 13 | #546 | 0.12 |
| 1889 | 12 | #565 | 0.11 |
| 1888 | 8 | #779 | 0.07 |
| 1887 | 12 | #527 | 0.12 |
| 1886 | 11 | #584 | 0.10 |
| 1885 | 7 | #799 | 0.06 |
| 1884 | 8 | #720 | 0.07 |
| 1883 | 8 | #698 | 0.08 |
| 1882 | 12 | #559 | 0.11 |
| 1881 | 12 | #517 | 0.12 |
| 1880 | 9 | #656 | 0.08 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Hamp a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Hamp has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 90 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Hamp: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hamp, and how old are they?
An estimated 207 Americans named Hamp and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (19% of everyone recorded); the median is 73 years old and half are between 64 and 79. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 251 people named Hamp (1 woman or girl, 250 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 269 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
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).
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Hamp
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 Hamp and names like it
- Compare Hamp and CiceroBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sHamp peaked in 1920.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Hamp since 1910.
- The top names of 1920The year the most babies were named Hamp.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Hamp alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with HMost given first.