Hulan
Hulan was last recorded in 1950, when 7 babies were given it; 178 Americans have been recorded with it between 1912 and 1950 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Hulan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Hulan?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #3,167, in 1950; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
13 babies in 1926, the peak
Hulan peaked in 1926, when 13 boys were given it, #2,355 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 7 | #3,167 | 3.9 |
| 1949 | 5 | #3,940 | 2.8 |
| 1947 | 5 | #3,974 | 2.7 |
| 1943 | 8 | #2,837 | 5.6 |
| 1941 | 8 | #2,757 | 6.5 |
| 1940 | 7 | #2,997 | 6.0 |
| 1939 | 10 | #2,351 | 9.0 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,330 | 5.8 |
| 1935 | 6 | #3,431 | 5.8 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,128 | 6.8 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1933 | 5 | #3,886 | 5.0 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,219 | 6.7 |
| 1930 | 9 | #2,875 | 8.2 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,413 | 4.5 |
| 1927 | 13 | #2,348 | 11.5 |
| 1926 | 13 | #2,355 | 11.7 |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,260 | 7.2 |
| 1924 | 5 | #4,644 | 4.4 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,010 | 5.5 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,380 | 7.4 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,031 | 5.6 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,454 | 5.1 |
| 1918 | 7 | #3,519 | 6.9 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,332 | 7.9 |
| 1912 | 5 | #2,704 | 11.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Hulan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Hulan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 25 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Hulan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hulan, and how old are they?
An estimated 23 Americans named Hulan 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 133 people named Hulan (22 women and girls, 111 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 40 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.3 times 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,772 babies since 1880, Hulan is the third most given (10% 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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Hulan
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 Hulan and names like it
- Compare Hulan and HulonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sHulan peaked in 1926.
- The top names of 1926The year the most babies were named Hulan.
- Names starting with HMost given first.