Hiawatha
Hiawatha was last recorded in 2004, when 5 babies were given it; 1,228 Americans have been recorded with it between 1911 and 2004 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Hiawatha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Hiawatha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,009, in 2004; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
31 babies in 1934, the peak
Hiawatha peaked in 1934, when 31 babies were given it (26 boys, #1,339 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | under 5 | 5 | #12,009 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 6 | #6,725 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 5 | #7,387 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 7 | #5,559 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 7 | #5,183 | |
| 1982 | under 5 | 7 | #5,246 | |
| 1981 | under 5 | 7 | #5,143 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 7 | #5,156 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 5 | #6,430 | |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,111 | 12 | #3,276 |
Every recorded year (75)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 5 | #9,810 | 6 | #5,190 |
| 1975 | under 5 | 8 | #4,086 | |
| 1973 | 7 | #6,911 | 6 | #4,735 |
| 1972 | under 5 | 9 | #3,452 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 14 | #2,614 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 9 | #3,375 | |
| 1969 | under 5 | 9 | #3,166 | |
| 1968 | under 5 | 8 | #3,214 | |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,152 | 11 | #2,535 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,456 | 6 | #3,689 |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,883 | 8 | #3,089 |
| 1964 | under 5 | 9 | #2,943 | |
| 1963 | under 5 | 8 | #3,164 | |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,130 | 10 | #2,744 |
| 1961 | 5 | #6,938 | 11 | #2,612 |
| 1960 | 8 | #4,923 | 11 | #2,598 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,232 | 11 | #2,584 |
| 1958 | under 5 | 13 | #2,308 | |
| 1957 | 11 | #3,781 | 20 | #1,812 |
| 1956 | under 5 | 13 | #2,317 | |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,188 | 16 | #1,997 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,376 | 9 | #2,834 |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,008 | 18 | #1,861 |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,262 | 11 | #2,428 |
| 1951 | under 5 | 17 | #1,868 | |
| 1950 | 6 | #4,956 | 18 | #1,772 |
| 1949 | 6 | #4,904 | 18 | #1,786 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,554 | 15 | #1,978 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,633 | 8 | #2,977 |
| 1946 | under 5 | 11 | #2,333 | |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,228 | 14 | #1,886 |
| 1944 | under 5 | 19 | #1,599 | |
| 1943 | 10 | #3,125 | 14 | #2,024 |
| 1942 | under 5 | 15 | #1,906 | |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,669 | 18 | #1,659 |
| 1940 | under 5 | 10 | #2,388 | |
| 1939 | under 5 | 8 | #2,705 | |
| 1938 | under 5 | 18 | #1,641 | |
| 1937 | 6 | #4,000 | 6 | #3,312 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,891 | 14 | #1,923 |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,552 | 19 | #1,621 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,570 | 26 | #1,339 |
| 1933 | 10 | #2,762 | 14 | #1,952 |
| 1932 | 6 | #4,107 | 23 | #1,487 |
| 1931 | under 5 | 16 | #1,885 | |
| 1930 | under 5 | 14 | #2,123 | |
| 1929 | 10 | #3,018 | 16 | #1,960 |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,572 | 16 | #2,005 |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,690 | 16 | #2,078 |
| 1926 | 11 | #2,955 | 16 | #2,023 |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,197 | 14 | #2,247 |
| 1924 | under 5 | 9 | #3,123 | |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,769 | 18 | #1,903 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,807 | 20 | #1,791 |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,736 | 22 | #1,676 |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,758 | 14 | #2,272 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,609 | 12 | #2,422 |
| 1918 | 7 | #4,044 | 16 | #2,031 |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,883 | 14 | #2,124 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,700 | 11 | #2,453 |
| 1915 | under 5 | 18 | #1,687 | |
| 1914 | 7 | #3,015 | 13 | #1,820 |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,656 | 8 | #2,168 |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,168 | 9 | #1,807 |
| 1911 | under 5 | 6 | #1,628 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Hiawatha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,228 Americans recorded as Hiawatha, 25% are girls and 75% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Hiawatha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hiawatha, and how old are they?
An estimated 478 Americans named Hiawatha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (39% of everyone recorded); the median is 67 years old and half are between 55 and 76. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 498 people named Hiawatha (168 women and girls, 330 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 577 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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 Hiawatha
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 Hiawatha and names like it
- Compare Hiawatha and MerrellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sHiawatha peaked in 1934.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Hiawatha since 1910.
- The top names of 1934The year the most babies were named Hiawatha.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Hiawatha alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with HMost given first.