Hoover
Hoover was last recorded in 2022, when 6 babies were given it; 1,127 Americans have been recorded with it between 1913 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Hoover by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Hoover?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,379, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
256 babies in 1928, the peak
Hoover peaked in 1928, when 256 boys were given it, #363 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 6 | #11,379 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 8 | #5,394 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,407 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 5 | #6,737 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 5 | #5,024 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 8 | #3,217 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 5 | #4,146 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,289 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 5 | #4,294 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 5 | #4,298 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 7 | #3,492 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 9 | #2,958 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 13 | #2,343 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 17 | #1,980 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 11 | #2,545 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 15 | #2,130 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 19 | #1,815 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 12 | #2,365 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 10 | #2,608 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 6 | #3,530 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 11 | #2,428 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 9 | #2,660 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 8 | #2,883 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 5 | #3,796 | under 0.01 |
| 1941 | 5 | #3,741 | under 0.01 |
| 1940 | 6 | #3,278 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 8 | #2,773 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 9 | #2,524 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 12 | #2,183 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 12 | #2,179 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 24 | #1,381 | 0.02 |
| 1932 | 64 | #794 | 0.06 |
| 1931 | 49 | #928 | 0.05 |
| 1930 | 92 | #640 | 0.08 |
| 1929 | 205 | #409 | 0.19 |
| 1928 | 256 | #363 | 0.23 |
| 1927 | 40 | #1,137 | 0.04 |
| 1926 | 19 | #1,818 | 0.02 |
| 1925 | 9 | #3,019 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,363 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 14 | #2,272 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 7 | #3,681 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,336 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 12 | #2,523 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 9 | #2,983 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 21 | #1,677 | 0.02 |
| 1917 | 16 | #1,936 | 0.02 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,026 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Hoover a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Hoover has been given almost only to boys: 7 girls in 48 years of records.
Girls and boys named Hoover: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hoover, and how old are they?
An estimated 182 Americans named Hoover and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (16% of everyone recorded); the median is 69 years old and half are between 63 and 75. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 472 people named Hoover (20 women and girls, 452 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 277 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 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).
Where are babies named Hoover born?
The states with the most babies named Hoover are North Carolina, Alabama and Virginia, with 42% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Alabama and Virginia are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 106 | not ranked | 2.8× |
| Alabama | 79 | not ranked | 2.6× |
| Virginia | 57 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Tennessee | 43 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Arkansas | 40 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Mississippi | 40 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Georgia | 34 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Kentucky | 33 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| South Carolina | 30 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Texas | 23 | not ranked | 0.4× |
Where Hoover is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Hoover is most over-represented in North Carolina: since 1913 it was given 2.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Hoover with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Hoover
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1910-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Edsel | 3,962 |
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 Hoover and names like it
- Compare Hoover and EdselBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sHoover peaked in 1928.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Hoover since 1910.
- The top names of 1928The year the most babies were named Hoover.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Hoover alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with HMost given first.