Horton
Horton was last recorded in 2012, when 5 babies were given it; 616 Americans have been recorded with it between 1888 and 2012 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Horton by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Horton?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,950, in 2012; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
28 babies in 1922, the peak
Horton peaked in 1922, when 28 boys were given it, #1,416 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 5 | #12,950 | 2.6 |
| 1983 | 5 | #6,660 | 2.8 |
| 1967 | 5 | #4,212 | 2.9 |
| 1961 | 5 | #4,318 | 2.4 |
| 1958 | 5 | #4,193 | 2.4 |
| 1957 | 8 | #3,122 | 3.7 |
| 1953 | 9 | #2,795 | 4.6 |
| 1952 | 12 | #2,306 | 6.2 |
| 1951 | 5 | #3,940 | 2.7 |
| 1950 | 5 | #3,914 | 2.8 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1949 | 5 | #3,934 | 2.8 |
| 1948 | 8 | #2,879 | 4.6 |
| 1947 | 10 | #2,571 | 5.5 |
| 1946 | 8 | #2,791 | 4.9 |
| 1944 | 6 | #3,273 | 4.4 |
| 1943 | 8 | #2,836 | 5.6 |
| 1942 | 10 | #2,450 | 7.2 |
| 1941 | 5 | #3,742 | 4.1 |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,393 | 8.6 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,275 | 5.4 |
| 1938 | 11 | #2,256 | 9.9 |
| 1937 | 9 | #2,575 | 8.4 |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,008 | 6.7 |
| 1935 | 8 | #2,813 | 7.7 |
| 1934 | 5 | #3,912 | 4.8 |
| 1933 | 14 | #1,954 | 14.1 |
| 1932 | 6 | #3,550 | 5.7 |
| 1931 | 12 | #2,258 | 11.5 |
| 1930 | 15 | #2,010 | 13.7 |
| 1929 | 22 | #1,583 | 20.5 |
| 1928 | 24 | #1,542 | 21.7 |
| 1927 | 17 | #1,987 | 15.1 |
| 1926 | 12 | #2,484 | 10.8 |
| 1925 | 17 | #1,962 | 15.2 |
| 1924 | 22 | #1,700 | 19.4 |
| 1923 | 28 | #1,400 | 25.5 |
| 1922 | 28 | #1,416 | 25.7 |
| 1921 | 24 | #1,567 | 21.8 |
| 1920 | 15 | #2,176 | 14.1 |
| 1919 | 14 | #2,196 | 14.3 |
| 1918 | 21 | #1,678 | 20.7 |
| 1917 | 16 | #1,937 | 17.3 |
| 1916 | 23 | #1,483 | 25.8 |
| 1915 | 16 | #1,828 | 18.9 |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,347 | 13.7 |
| 1913 | 16 | #1,348 | 31.2 |
| 1912 | 13 | #1,388 | 30.2 |
| 1911 | 9 | #1,232 | 39.8 |
| 1905 | 7 | #1,031 | 52.9 |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,131 | 46.8 |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,212 | 40.8 |
| 1895 | 7 | #928 | 59.6 |
| 1891 | 5 | #1,030 | 49.4 |
| 1889 | 5 | #1,032 | 45.2 |
| 1888 | 8 | #784 | 66.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Horton a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Horton has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 55 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Horton: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Horton, and how old are they?
An estimated 87 Americans named Horton and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 227 people named Horton (20 women and girls, 207 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 125 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 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 that rose and fell in the same decades as Horton
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 Horton and names like it
- Compare Horton and ChalmersBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sHorton peaked in 1922.
- Alabama’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Horton since 1910.
- The top names of 1922The year the most babies were named Horton.
- Names starting with HMost given first.