Humphrey
Humphrey was last recorded in 2024, when 8 babies were given it; 1,085 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Humphrey by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Humphrey mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Humphrey is “a male given name from the Germanic languages.” Its etymology gives the senses “to grant, bestow” (*unnaną) and “peace” (*friþuz).
Name of a 9th-century French saint, brought to England by Normans; Proto-Germanic *unnaną (“to grant, bestow”) + *friþuz (“peace”). In Ireland it has been used to Anglicize Irish Amhlaoibh (= Olaf).
/ˈhʌmfɹi/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Humphrey?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,323, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
22 babies in 1924, the peak
Humphrey peaked in 1924, when 22 boys were given it, #1,701 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 8 | #9,323 | 4.6 |
| 2022 | 5 | #13,058 | 2.9 |
| 2021 | 7 | #10,124 | 4.0 |
| 2020 | 9 | #8,310 | 5.2 |
| 2019 | 6 | #11,284 | 3.3 |
| 2018 | 5 | #12,892 | 2.8 |
| 2017 | 5 | #12,997 | 2.7 |
| 2015 | 7 | #9,943 | 3.7 |
| 2013 | 5 | #12,843 | 2.6 |
| 2012 | 7 | #10,101 | 3.7 |
Every recorded year (111)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 6 | #11,361 | 3.2 |
| 2009 | 6 | #11,505 | 3.0 |
| 2008 | 6 | #11,575 | 2.9 |
| 2004 | 8 | #8,413 | 4.0 |
| 2002 | 5 | #11,327 | 2.6 |
| 1996 | 7 | #7,431 | 3.7 |
| 1994 | 6 | #8,145 | 3.1 |
| 1993 | 7 | #7,099 | 3.6 |
| 1991 | 10 | #5,242 | 4.9 |
| 1990 | 8 | #6,048 | 3.9 |
| 1989 | 12 | #4,371 | 6.0 |
| 1988 | 7 | #6,023 | 3.7 |
| 1986 | 5 | #7,132 | 2.7 |
| 1985 | 9 | #4,464 | 4.9 |
| 1983 | 5 | #6,662 | 2.8 |
| 1982 | 5 | #6,740 | 2.8 |
| 1981 | 5 | #6,665 | 2.8 |
| 1980 | 8 | #4,672 | 4.5 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,436 | 2.9 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,231 | 3.0 |
| 1976 | 9 | #3,837 | 5.7 |
| 1975 | 7 | #4,517 | 4.5 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,535 | 3.2 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,407 | 3.2 |
| 1972 | 6 | #4,657 | 3.7 |
| 1971 | 7 | #4,135 | 4.0 |
| 1970 | 8 | #3,640 | 4.3 |
| 1969 | 8 | #3,421 | 4.5 |
| 1968 | 11 | #2,646 | 6.3 |
| 1967 | 10 | #2,672 | 5.7 |
| 1966 | 11 | #2,533 | 6.2 |
| 1965 | 7 | #3,381 | 3.8 |
| 1964 | 14 | #2,253 | 7.0 |
| 1963 | 14 | #2,248 | 6.9 |
| 1962 | 11 | #2,582 | 5.3 |
| 1961 | 6 | #3,808 | 2.8 |
| 1960 | 8 | #3,190 | 3.8 |
| 1959 | 14 | #2,244 | 6.6 |
| 1958 | 16 | #2,061 | 7.5 |
| 1957 | 17 | #1,986 | 7.9 |
| 1956 | 5 | #4,179 | 2.4 |
| 1955 | 15 | #2,083 | 7.3 |
| 1954 | 18 | #1,854 | 8.8 |
| 1953 | 14 | #2,142 | 7.1 |
| 1952 | 12 | #2,307 | 6.2 |
| 1951 | 17 | #1,869 | 9.0 |
| 1950 | 14 | #2,067 | 7.8 |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,169 | 7.3 |
| 1948 | 14 | #2,063 | 8.0 |
| 1947 | 7 | #3,213 | 3.8 |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,082 | 8.0 |
| 1945 | 13 | #1,971 | 9.7 |
| 1944 | 8 | #2,734 | 5.9 |
| 1943 | 16 | #1,872 | 11.2 |
| 1942 | 9 | #2,604 | 6.5 |
| 1940 | 8 | #2,756 | 6.9 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,276 | 5.4 |
| 1937 | 5 | #3,770 | 4.7 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,331 | 5.8 |
| 1935 | 6 | #3,432 | 5.8 |
| 1934 | 18 | #1,695 | 17.4 |
| 1933 | 14 | #1,955 | 14.1 |
| 1932 | 16 | #1,882 | 15.3 |
| 1931 | 9 | #2,754 | 8.7 |
| 1930 | 17 | #1,858 | 15.5 |
| 1929 | 16 | #1,962 | 14.9 |
| 1928 | 12 | #2,450 | 10.8 |
| 1927 | 15 | #2,149 | 13.3 |
| 1926 | 18 | #1,867 | 16.2 |
| 1925 | 9 | #3,020 | 8.1 |
| 1924 | 22 | #1,701 | 19.4 |
| 1923 | 11 | #2,689 | 10.0 |
| 1922 | 13 | #2,404 | 11.9 |
| 1921 | 18 | #1,940 | 16.3 |
| 1920 | 17 | #1,998 | 16.0 |
| 1919 | 14 | #2,197 | 14.3 |
| 1918 | 21 | #1,679 | 20.7 |
| 1917 | 19 | #1,725 | 20.5 |
| 1916 | 14 | #2,091 | 15.7 |
| 1915 | 20 | #1,577 | 23.6 |
| 1914 | 13 | #1,821 | 19.9 |
| 1913 | 12 | #1,624 | 23.4 |
| 1912 | 17 | #1,153 | 39.5 |
| 1910 | 7 | #1,366 | 36.0 |
| 1909 | 5 | #1,568 | 30.5 |
| 1907 | 8 | #1,041 | 54.5 |
| 1906 | 5 | #1,324 | 37.6 |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,162 | 45.3 |
| 1900 | 5 | #1,404 | 33.2 |
| 1894 | 9 | #759 | 77.7 |
| 1893 | 10 | #678 | 89.0 |
| 1892 | 8 | #827 | 65.6 |
| 1891 | 5 | #1,033 | 49.4 |
| 1889 | 8 | #750 | 72.3 |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,101 | 41.4 |
| 1887 | 5 | #993 | 49.3 |
| 1884 | 7 | #813 | 61.2 |
| 1883 | 6 | #839 | 57.3 |
| 1882 | 8 | #728 | 70.4 |
| 1881 | 6 | #824 | 59.6 |
| 1880 | 5 | #982 | 45.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Humphrey a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Humphrey has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 111 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Humphrey: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Humphrey, and how old are they?
An estimated 464 Americans named Humphrey and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (43% of everyone recorded); the median is 56 years old and half are between 35 and 69. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,034 people named Humphrey (21 women and girls, 1,013 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 494 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.1 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 that rose and fell in the same decades as Humphrey
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 Humphrey and names like it
- Compare Humphrey and LemuelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sHumphrey peaked in 1924.
- Massachusetts’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Humphrey since 1910.
- Germanic namesWiktionary’s origin for Humphrey: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1924The year the most babies were named Humphrey.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Humphrey alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with HMost given first.