Hampton — #1518 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Hampton

The Social Security Administration has registered 4,656 babies named Hampton between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Hampton currently holds the #1518 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 116 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Hampton performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 759 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Hampton shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in South Carolina, which accounts for 653 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by North Carolina and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Hampton in 15 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Hampton in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 4,656 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.