Ho — boys' name

What the Data Says About Ho

The Social Security Administration has registered 129 babies named Ho between 1971 and 1999, spanning 29 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Ho currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1999. The name reached its historical peak in 1989, when 13 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ho performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 64 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Ho shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Ho in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ho 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 129 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.