Hughey
Hughey was last recorded in 1962, when 5 babies were given it; 405 Americans have been recorded with it between 1893 and 1962 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Hughey by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Hughey?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #4,302, in 1962; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
21 babies in 1917, the peak
Hughey peaked in 1917, when 21 boys were given it, #1,613 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | 5 | #4,302 | 2.4 |
| 1961 | 6 | #3,807 | 2.8 |
| 1960 | 5 | #4,294 | 2.3 |
| 1959 | 8 | #3,133 | 3.7 |
| 1958 | 5 | #4,196 | 2.4 |
| 1956 | 10 | #2,700 | 4.7 |
| 1955 | 6 | #3,677 | 2.9 |
| 1953 | 5 | #4,045 | 2.5 |
| 1949 | 8 | #2,885 | 4.5 |
| 1948 | 7 | #3,143 | 4.0 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1947 | 11 | #2,432 | 6.0 |
| 1946 | 5 | #3,747 | 3.1 |
| 1945 | 9 | #2,478 | 6.7 |
| 1943 | 9 | #2,639 | 6.3 |
| 1941 | 8 | #2,755 | 6.5 |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,394 | 8.6 |
| 1939 | 7 | #2,963 | 6.3 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,003 | 6.3 |
| 1937 | 12 | #2,135 | 11.3 |
| 1936 | 10 | #2,364 | 9.6 |
| 1935 | 12 | #2,185 | 11.5 |
| 1934 | 9 | #2,650 | 8.7 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,012 | 4.8 |
| 1931 | 12 | #2,260 | 11.5 |
| 1930 | 9 | #2,874 | 8.2 |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,516 | 6.3 |
| 1927 | 10 | #2,797 | 8.9 |
| 1926 | 10 | #2,801 | 9.0 |
| 1925 | 14 | #2,253 | 12.5 |
| 1924 | 16 | #2,087 | 14.1 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,299 | 7.3 |
| 1922 | 7 | #3,683 | 6.4 |
| 1921 | 9 | #3,093 | 8.2 |
| 1920 | 14 | #2,274 | 13.2 |
| 1919 | 15 | #2,100 | 15.3 |
| 1918 | 10 | #2,773 | 9.9 |
| 1917 | 21 | #1,613 | 22.7 |
| 1916 | 14 | #2,090 | 15.7 |
| 1915 | 16 | #1,829 | 18.9 |
| 1914 | 7 | #2,776 | 10.7 |
| 1913 | 9 | #2,010 | 17.6 |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,140 | 44.3 |
| 1894 | 8 | #819 | 69.1 |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,114 | 44.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Hughey a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Hughey has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 44 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Hughey: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hughey, and how old are they?
An estimated 76 Americans named Hughey 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 149 people named Hughey (2 women and girls, 147 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 106 born in the U.S. The Census count is 41% above 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).
How common is the spelling Hughey?
Hughey is a less common spelling of Hughie: SSA has recorded 405 Hughey and 1,676 Hughie since 1880.
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,081 babies since 1880, Hughey is the second most given (19% of them).
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 Hughey and names like it
- Compare Hughey and HughieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sHughey peaked in 1917.
- Louisiana’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Hughey since 1910.
- The top names of 1917The year the most babies were named Hughey.
- Names starting with HMost given first.