Hughie
Hughie was given to 7 boys in 2025, #10,064 among boys’ names; 1,676 Americans have been recorded with it since 1888 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Hughie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Hughie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Hughie is “a diminutive of the male given name Hugh.”
From Hugh + -ie. Regarding rain, various etymologies have been proposed; see Send 'er down, Hughie!.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Hughie?
#10,064 among boys’ names, 2025
Hughie entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #10,064 in 2025.
48 babies in 1925, the peak
Hughie peaked in 1925, when 48 boys were given it, #991 among boys’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 15% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #10,064 | 4.1 |
| 2023 | 8 | #9,225 | 4.7 |
| 1998 | 5 | #10,214 | 2.6 |
| 1986 | 9 | #4,614 | 4.9 |
| 1983 | 6 | #5,755 | 3.3 |
| 1982 | 5 | #6,739 | 2.8 |
| 1981 | 8 | #4,692 | 4.5 |
| 1977 | 8 | #4,339 | 4.9 |
| 1976 | 7 | #4,611 | 4.5 |
| 1975 | 6 | #5,054 | 3.8 |
Every recorded year (87)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | 11 | #3,099 | 7.1 |
| 1972 | 9 | #3,454 | 5.6 |
| 1970 | 9 | #3,377 | 4.8 |
| 1969 | 7 | #3,738 | 3.9 |
| 1968 | 6 | #3,889 | 3.5 |
| 1967 | 5 | #4,215 | 2.9 |
| 1966 | 7 | #3,358 | 3.9 |
| 1965 | 9 | #2,877 | 4.8 |
| 1964 | 17 | #2,011 | 8.5 |
| 1963 | 17 | #1,998 | 8.4 |
| 1962 | 19 | #1,873 | 9.2 |
| 1961 | 12 | #2,468 | 5.6 |
| 1960 | 13 | #2,365 | 6.1 |
| 1959 | 14 | #2,243 | 6.6 |
| 1958 | 17 | #1,981 | 8.0 |
| 1957 | 15 | #2,133 | 7.0 |
| 1956 | 22 | #1,695 | 10.4 |
| 1955 | 19 | #1,817 | 9.2 |
| 1954 | 22 | #1,646 | 10.8 |
| 1953 | 23 | #1,609 | 11.7 |
| 1952 | 20 | #1,721 | 10.3 |
| 1951 | 19 | #1,750 | 10.1 |
| 1950 | 20 | #1,675 | 11.2 |
| 1949 | 24 | #1,524 | 13.5 |
| 1948 | 22 | #1,581 | 12.5 |
| 1947 | 31 | #1,329 | 16.9 |
| 1946 | 28 | #1,341 | 17.2 |
| 1945 | 16 | #1,727 | 11.9 |
| 1944 | 14 | #1,922 | 10.3 |
| 1943 | 31 | #1,246 | 21.7 |
| 1942 | 17 | #1,767 | 12.3 |
| 1941 | 32 | #1,176 | 26.1 |
| 1940 | 24 | #1,382 | 20.7 |
| 1939 | 30 | #1,208 | 27.1 |
| 1938 | 32 | #1,155 | 28.9 |
| 1937 | 36 | #1,082 | 33.8 |
| 1936 | 23 | #1,401 | 22.2 |
| 1935 | 36 | #1,085 | 34.6 |
| 1934 | 21 | #1,531 | 20.3 |
| 1933 | 28 | #1,263 | 28.2 |
| 1932 | 33 | #1,190 | 31.6 |
| 1931 | 21 | #1,567 | 20.2 |
| 1930 | 38 | #1,144 | 34.6 |
| 1929 | 33 | #1,228 | 30.7 |
| 1928 | 37 | #1,175 | 33.4 |
| 1927 | 31 | #1,335 | 27.5 |
| 1926 | 39 | #1,152 | 35.1 |
| 1925 | 48 | #991 | 43.0 |
| 1924 | 30 | #1,368 | 26.5 |
| 1923 | 45 | #1,068 | 41.1 |
| 1922 | 38 | #1,171 | 34.9 |
| 1921 | 36 | #1,211 | 32.7 |
| 1920 | 40 | #1,130 | 37.6 |
| 1919 | 33 | #1,240 | 33.7 |
| 1918 | 33 | #1,223 | 32.6 |
| 1917 | 45 | #972 | 48.6 |
| 1916 | 28 | #1,285 | 31.5 |
| 1915 | 26 | #1,322 | 30.6 |
| 1914 | 27 | #1,116 | 41.2 |
| 1913 | 12 | #1,623 | 23.4 |
| 1912 | 25 | #904 | 58.1 |
| 1911 | 17 | #805 | 75.2 |
| 1910 | 5 | #1,705 | 25.7 |
| 1909 | 11 | #922 | 67.1 |
| 1908 | 7 | #1,155 | 45.4 |
| 1907 | 8 | #1,040 | 54.5 |
| 1905 | 10 | #815 | 75.6 |
| 1902 | 8 | #889 | 65.2 |
| 1900 | 8 | #999 | 53.2 |
| 1899 | 9 | #750 | 84.7 |
| 1898 | 7 | #932 | 57.1 |
| 1897 | 8 | #822 | 70.9 |
| 1894 | 7 | #910 | 60.5 |
| 1893 | 7 | #869 | 62.3 |
| 1890 | 6 | #940 | 54.0 |
| 1889 | 5 | #1,036 | 45.2 |
| 1888 | 9 | #724 | 74.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Hughie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Hughie has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 87 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Hughie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hughie, and how old are they?
An estimated 447 Americans named Hughie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (27% of everyone recorded); the median is 70 years old and half are between 60 and 79. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 466 people named Hughie (8 women and girls, 458 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 555 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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 3 names spelled alike, given to 9,184 babies since 1880, Hughie is the second most given (18% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 49 babies (14%), again the second 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 Hughie
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 Hughie and names like it
- Compare Hughie and HueyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sHughie peaked in 1925.
- Tennessee’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Hughie since 1910.
- The top names of 1925The year the most babies were named Hughie.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Hughie alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with HMost given first.