Hugo — #403 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Hugo

The Social Security Administration has registered 36,638 babies named Hugo between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Hugo currently holds the #403 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2006, when 811 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Hugo performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 7,324 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Hugo shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 10,826 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Hugo in 45 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Hugo in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 36,638 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.