Hero — #2360 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Hero

The Social Security Administration has registered 739 babies named Hero between 2004 and 2024, spanning 21 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Hero currently holds the #2360 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2021, when 70 babies received it in a single year. Hero is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 214 additional births since 2000.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Hero performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 352 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Hero shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 124 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Hero in 8 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Hero 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 739 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.