Huey
Huey was given to 42 boys in 2025, #2,954 among boys’ names; 7,103 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,810 Americans named Huey and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (40% of everyone recorded); the median is 64 years old and half are between 40 and 75.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Huey by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Huey mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Huey is “a diminutive of the male given name Hugh.”
Also “a diminutive of the male given name Hubert.”
From the pronunciation of Hughie.
/ˈhjuː.i/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Huey?
#2,954 among boys’ names, 2025
Huey rose from #5,828 in 2015 to #2,954 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 7.8 to 24.6 per million.
494 babies in 1935, the peak
Huey peaked in 1935, when 494 boys were given it, #237 among boys’ names. The 42 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 42 | #2,954 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 43 | #2,929 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 35 | #3,369 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 37 | #3,237 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 44 | #2,835 | 0.03 |
| 2020 | 31 | #3,521 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 23 | #4,385 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 30 | #3,645 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 20 | #4,813 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 30 | #3,624 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (137)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 15 | #5,828 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 13 | #6,432 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 14 | #6,027 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 11 | #7,221 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 12 | #6,742 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 11 | #7,255 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 14 | #6,221 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 13 | #6,537 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 12 | #6,795 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 14 | #5,888 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 10 | #7,317 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 10 | #7,179 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 10 | #6,906 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 8 | #7,920 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 7 | #8,635 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 5 | #11,024 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 17 | #4,216 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 16 | #4,271 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 10 | #5,803 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 9 | #6,174 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 5 | #9,383 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 12 | #4,905 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 11 | #5,139 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 9 | #5,818 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 19 | #3,251 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 14 | #4,054 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 24 | #2,634 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 13 | #3,771 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 28 | #2,141 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 17 | #2,931 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 14 | #3,281 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 15 | #3,014 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 27 | #1,976 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 21 | #2,368 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 14 | #3,106 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 26 | #2,081 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 29 | #1,882 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 20 | #2,318 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 28 | #1,840 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 22 | #2,135 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 36 | #1,485 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 31 | #1,602 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 31 | #1,562 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 36 | #1,428 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 49 | #1,171 | 0.03 |
| 1970 | 51 | #1,161 | 0.03 |
| 1969 | 44 | #1,191 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 35 | #1,296 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 47 | #1,077 | 0.03 |
| 1966 | 41 | #1,172 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 51 | #1,039 | 0.03 |
| 1964 | 44 | #1,164 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 70 | #894 | 0.03 |
| 1962 | 88 | #811 | 0.04 |
| 1961 | 87 | #817 | 0.04 |
| 1960 | 74 | #887 | 0.03 |
| 1959 | 81 | #839 | 0.04 |
| 1958 | 90 | #786 | 0.04 |
| 1957 | 100 | #750 | 0.05 |
| 1956 | 89 | #787 | 0.04 |
| 1955 | 87 | #781 | 0.04 |
| 1954 | 113 | #677 | 0.06 |
| 1953 | 77 | #820 | 0.04 |
| 1952 | 92 | #733 | 0.05 |
| 1951 | 83 | #770 | 0.04 |
| 1950 | 75 | #788 | 0.04 |
| 1949 | 90 | #723 | 0.05 |
| 1948 | 83 | #740 | 0.05 |
| 1947 | 74 | #802 | 0.04 |
| 1946 | 70 | #797 | 0.04 |
| 1945 | 64 | #769 | 0.05 |
| 1944 | 90 | #656 | 0.07 |
| 1943 | 76 | #742 | 0.05 |
| 1942 | 97 | #648 | 0.07 |
| 1941 | 98 | #605 | 0.08 |
| 1940 | 103 | #584 | 0.09 |
| 1939 | 122 | #515 | 0.11 |
| 1938 | 165 | #451 | 0.15 |
| 1937 | 214 | #378 | 0.20 |
| 1936 | 353 | #288 | 0.34 |
| 1935 | 494 | #237 | 0.47 |
| 1934 | 187 | #403 | 0.18 |
| 1933 | 154 | #447 | 0.16 |
| 1932 | 144 | #480 | 0.14 |
| 1931 | 162 | #443 | 0.16 |
| 1930 | 174 | #447 | 0.16 |
| 1929 | 193 | #424 | 0.18 |
| 1928 | 216 | #409 | 0.20 |
| 1927 | 115 | #578 | 0.10 |
| 1926 | 62 | #840 | 0.06 |
| 1925 | 54 | #917 | 0.05 |
| 1924 | 77 | #766 | 0.07 |
| 1923 | 69 | #810 | 0.06 |
| 1922 | 71 | #796 | 0.07 |
| 1921 | 58 | #926 | 0.05 |
| 1920 | 48 | #995 | 0.05 |
| 1919 | 50 | #953 | 0.05 |
| 1918 | 42 | #1,047 | 0.04 |
| 1917 | 37 | #1,099 | 0.04 |
| 1916 | 41 | #1,007 | 0.05 |
| 1915 | 39 | #1,028 | 0.05 |
| 1914 | 38 | #890 | 0.06 |
| 1913 | 27 | #955 | 0.05 |
| 1912 | 37 | #710 | 0.09 |
| 1911 | 10 | #1,155 | 0.04 |
| 1910 | 16 | #767 | 0.08 |
| 1909 | 9 | #1,048 | 0.05 |
| 1908 | 8 | #1,063 | 0.05 |
| 1907 | 9 | #961 | 0.06 |
| 1906 | 9 | #883 | 0.07 |
| 1905 | 8 | #961 | 0.06 |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,134 | 0.05 |
| 1903 | 12 | #675 | 0.10 |
| 1902 | 6 | #1,071 | 0.05 |
| 1899 | 9 | #749 | 0.08 |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,139 | 0.04 |
| 1896 | 8 | #859 | 0.07 |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,165 | 0.04 |
| 1894 | 7 | #909 | 0.06 |
| 1893 | 9 | #730 | 0.08 |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,157 | 0.04 |
| 1890 | 7 | #846 | 0.06 |
| 1886 | 5 | #1,031 | 0.05 |
| 1885 | 5 | #1,013 | 0.05 |
| 1882 | 5 | #1,009 | 0.04 |
| 1881 | 6 | #823 | 0.06 |
| 1880 | 5 | #981 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Huey a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Huey has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 137 years of records.
Girls and boys named Huey: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Huey, and how old are they?
2,810 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 40% of the 7,103 Americans ever recorded as Huey. The median Huey alive today is 64 years old; half are between 40 and 75.
The 2020 Census counted 3,078 people named Huey (166 women and girls, 2,912 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,247 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 477 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,030 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 505 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 239 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 177 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 374 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Huey born?
The states with the most babies named Huey are Louisiana, Alabama and Texas, with 76% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Louisiana and Alabama are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 2,489 | not ranked | 17.6× |
| Alabama | 684 | not ranked | 4.0× |
| Texas | 340 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Mississippi | 315 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| Georgia | 262 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Arkansas | 194 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Tennessee | 64 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Florida | 58 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| North Carolina | 55 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| California | 47 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Huey is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Huey is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1910 it was given 17.6 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 Huey with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 11,214 babies since 1880, Huey is the most given (63% of them). In 2025 it was given to 42 of their 59 babies (71%), again the most given.
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 Huey
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 Huey and names like it
- Compare Huey and HuyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sHuey peaked in 1935.
- Louisiana’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Huey since 1910.
- The top names of 1935The year the most babies were named Huey.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Huey alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with HMost given first.