Hue
Hue was last recorded in 2024, when 5 babies were given it; 565 Americans have been recorded with it between 1913 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Hue by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Hue?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,005, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
19 babies in 1981, the peak
Hue peaked in 1981, when 19 babies were given it (10 boys, #3,960 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | under 5 | 5 | #13,005 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 7 | #10,191 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 5 | #12,863 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 5 | #13,018 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 6 | #11,438 | |
| 2003 | under 5 | 5 | #11,533 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 7 | #8,523 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 5 | #10,213 | |
| 1996 | under 5 | 9 | #6,173 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 9 | #6,097 |
Every recorded year (63)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 6 | #12,337 | 12 | #4,904 |
| 1993 | under 5 | 8 | #6,432 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 14 | #4,196 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 14 | #4,083 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 14 | #4,053 | |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,097 | 12 | #4,370 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,614 | 6 | #6,729 |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,949 | 12 | #3,821 |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,973 | 8 | #5,046 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,662 | 9 | #4,463 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,533 | 10 | #4,032 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,576 | 6 | #5,754 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,083 | 10 | #4,060 |
| 1981 | 9 | #6,991 | 10 | #3,960 |
| 1980 | 11 | #6,053 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,827 | under 5 | |
| 1965 | under 5 | 5 | #4,148 | |
| 1961 | under 5 | 5 | #4,321 | |
| 1956 | under 5 | 6 | #3,704 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 5 | #4,101 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 5 | #4,069 | |
| 1952 | under 5 | 7 | #3,213 | |
| 1951 | under 5 | 5 | #3,943 | |
| 1948 | under 5 | 5 | #3,905 | |
| 1945 | under 5 | 6 | #3,144 | |
| 1944 | under 5 | 5 | #3,641 | |
| 1943 | under 5 | 11 | #2,331 | |
| 1942 | under 5 | 5 | #3,797 | |
| 1941 | under 5 | 10 | #2,405 | |
| 1940 | under 5 | 9 | #2,566 | |
| 1936 | under 5 | 7 | #3,009 | |
| 1935 | under 5 | 11 | #2,321 | |
| 1934 | under 5 | 10 | #2,467 | |
| 1933 | under 5 | 5 | #3,885 | |
| 1932 | under 5 | 9 | #2,731 | |
| 1931 | under 5 | 14 | #2,043 | |
| 1930 | under 5 | 6 | #3,785 | |
| 1929 | under 5 | 6 | #3,734 | |
| 1928 | under 5 | 6 | #3,915 | |
| 1927 | under 5 | 6 | #3,960 | |
| 1926 | under 5 | 11 | #2,641 | |
| 1925 | under 5 | 5 | #4,538 | |
| 1923 | under 5 | 7 | #3,630 | |
| 1922 | under 5 | 10 | #2,900 | |
| 1921 | under 5 | 7 | #3,687 | |
| 1920 | under 5 | 6 | #4,029 | |
| 1919 | under 5 | 8 | #3,240 | |
| 1918 | under 5 | 8 | #3,235 | |
| 1917 | under 5 | 8 | #3,056 | |
| 1916 | under 5 | 8 | #3,041 | |
| 1915 | under 5 | 8 | #2,938 | |
| 1914 | under 5 | 8 | #2,534 | |
| 1913 | under 5 | 5 | #3,028 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Hue a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 565 Americans recorded as Hue, 16% are girls and 84% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Hue: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hue, and how old are they?
An estimated 336 Americans named Hue and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (60% of everyone recorded); the median is 39 years old and half are between 33 and 45. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 6,158 people named Hue (4,682 women and girls, 1,476 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 351 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Hue rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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 4 names spelled alike, given to 9,538 babies since 1880, Hue is the third most given (5.9% of them). In 2025 none of their 52 babies recorded by SSA was a Hue (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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.
More about Hue and names like it
- Compare Hue and HueyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sHue peaked in 1981.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Hue since 1910.
- The top names of 1981The year the most babies were named Hue.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Hue alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with HMost given first.