Hezzie
Hezzie was last recorded in 1960, when 5 babies were given it; 247 Americans have been recorded with it between 1894 and 1960 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Hezzie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Hezzie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #4,285, in 1960; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
15 babies in 1920, the peak
Hezzie peaked in 1920, when 15 boys were given it, #2,174 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | 5 | #4,285 | 2.3 |
| 1952 | 6 | #3,522 | 3.1 |
| 1951 | 5 | #3,932 | 2.7 |
| 1950 | 8 | #2,880 | 4.5 |
| 1948 | 8 | #2,875 | 4.6 |
| 1947 | 7 | #3,206 | 3.8 |
| 1944 | 5 | #3,633 | 3.7 |
| 1943 | 10 | #2,471 | 7.0 |
| 1940 | 6 | #3,272 | 5.2 |
| 1938 | 8 | #2,746 | 7.2 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1937 | 6 | #3,311 | 5.6 |
| 1936 | 5 | #3,772 | 4.8 |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,095 | 6.7 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,002 | 4.8 |
| 1931 | 6 | #3,564 | 5.8 |
| 1929 | 6 | #3,727 | 5.6 |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,510 | 6.3 |
| 1927 | 5 | #4,451 | 4.4 |
| 1925 | 5 | #4,526 | 4.5 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,292 | 7.3 |
| 1922 | 13 | #2,402 | 11.9 |
| 1921 | 7 | #3,676 | 6.4 |
| 1920 | 15 | #2,174 | 14.1 |
| 1919 | 11 | #2,577 | 11.2 |
| 1918 | 10 | #2,770 | 9.9 |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,053 | 8.6 |
| 1916 | 9 | #2,810 | 10.1 |
| 1915 | 9 | #2,718 | 10.6 |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,343 | 13.7 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,401 | 14.0 |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,127 | 47.0 |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,207 | 40.8 |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,136 | 44.3 |
| 1894 | 7 | #904 | 60.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Hezzie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Hezzie has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 34 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Hezzie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hezzie, and how old are they?
An estimated 36 Americans named Hezzie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 115 people named Hezzie (8 women and girls, 107 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 52 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.2 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).
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Hezzie
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1890-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Hobart | 3,806 |
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 Hezzie and names like it
- Compare Hezzie and HobartBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sHezzie peaked in 1920.
- Mississippi’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Hezzie since 1910.
- The top names of 1920The year the most babies were named Hezzie.
- Names starting with HMost given first.