Ho
Ho was last recorded in 1999, when 7 babies were given it; 129 Americans have been recorded with it between 1971 and 1999 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ho by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ho?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #8,175, in 1999; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
13 babies in 1989, the peak
Ho peaked in 1989, when 13 boys were given it, #4,120 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 7 | #8,175 | 3.6 |
| 1993 | 8 | #6,431 | 4.1 |
| 1992 | 7 | #6,948 | 3.5 |
| 1991 | 8 | #6,156 | 4.0 |
| 1990 | 8 | #6,044 | 3.9 |
| 1989 | 13 | #4,120 | 6.5 |
| 1987 | 9 | #4,704 | 4.8 |
| 1986 | 9 | #4,611 | 4.9 |
| 1984 | 8 | #4,714 | 4.4 |
| 1983 | 10 | #3,979 | 5.6 |
Every recorded year (17)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 7 | #5,250 | 3.9 |
| 1981 | 8 | #4,691 | 4.5 |
| 1979 | 7 | #5,040 | 4.1 |
| 1978 | 5 | #6,176 | 3.0 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,226 | 3.0 |
| 1975 | 5 | #5,801 | 3.2 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,219 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ho a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ho has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 17 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ho: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ho, and how old are they?
An estimated 121 Americans named Ho and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 40 years old and half are between 36 and 45. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 2,969 people named Ho (707 women and girls, 2,262 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 123 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24.1 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 spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,008 babies since 1880, Ho is the second most given (13% of them).
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 Ho
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 Ho and names like it
- Compare Ho and HoyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sHo peaked in 1989.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ho since 1910.
- The top names of 1989The year the most babies were named Ho.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Ho alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with HMost given first.