Hiawatha — boys' name

What the Data Says About Hiawatha

The Social Security Administration has registered 925 babies named Hiawatha between 1911 and 2004, spanning 94 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Hiawatha currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2004. The name reached its historical peak in 1934, when 26 babies received it in a single year. Hiawatha is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 303 additional births since 1912.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Hiawatha performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 161 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Hiawatha shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 17 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Alabama and North Carolina. In total, SSA state-level files list Hiawatha in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Hiawatha 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 925 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.