Hektor
Hektor was last recorded in 2022, when 5 babies were given it; 101 Americans have been recorded with it between 2005 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Hektor by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Hektor mean?
Wiktionary, Swedish section
Hektor is “a male given name”
Meaning: Wiktionary, Swedish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Hektor?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,038, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
11 babies in 2009, the peak
Hektor peaked in 2009, when 11 boys were given it, #7,384 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5 | #13,038 | 2.9 |
| 2021 | 9 | #8,412 | 5.1 |
| 2020 | 10 | #7,713 | 5.8 |
| 2019 | 8 | #9,187 | 4.5 |
| 2016 | 7 | #10,039 | 3.7 |
| 2015 | 11 | #7,238 | 5.7 |
| 2014 | 5 | #12,757 | 2.6 |
| 2013 | 5 | #12,821 | 2.6 |
| 2012 | 5 | #12,939 | 2.6 |
| 2011 | 6 | #11,350 | 3.2 |
Every recorded year (14)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 11 | #7,384 | 5.5 |
| 2008 | 7 | #10,264 | 3.4 |
| 2006 | 6 | #11,146 | 2.9 |
| 2005 | 6 | #10,573 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Hektor a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Hektor has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 14 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Hektor: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hektor, and how old are they?
An estimated 100 Americans named Hektor and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 7 and 17. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 150 people named Hektor (2 women and girls, 148 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 79 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.9 times 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Hektor?
Hektor is a less common spelling of Hector: SSA has recorded 101 Hektor and 109,209 Hector since 1880.
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 109,310 babies since 1880, Hektor is the second most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 779 babies recorded by SSA was a Hektor (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Hektor
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 Hektor and names like it
- Compare Hektor and HectorBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sHektor peaked in 2009.
- Swedish namesWiktionary’s origin for Hektor: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Hektor.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Hektor alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with HMost given first.