Huxley
Huxley was given to 357 boys in 2025, #736 among boys’ names; 5,230 Americans have been recorded with it since 2002 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,190 Americans named Huxley and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 4 and 9.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Huxley by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Huxley mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Huxley is “a male given name transferred from the surname.” Its etymology gives the sense “woodland clearing, glade” (lēah).
From the Old English personal name *Hucc + -s- + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”). The first element could also be husc (“insult, scorn, mockery”).
/ˈhʌksli/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Huxley?
#736 among boys’ names, 2025
Huxley rose from #960 in 2015 to #736 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.11 to 0.21 per 1,000.
572 babies in 2020, the peak
Huxley peaked in 2020, when 572 babies were given it (526 boys, #538 among boys’ names). The 393 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 69% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 357 | #736 | 0.21 |
| 2024 | 346 | #743 | 0.20 |
| 2023 | 453 | #620 | 0.26 |
| 2022 | 457 | #611 | 0.26 |
| 2021 | 476 | #586 | 0.27 |
| 2020 | 526 | #538 | 0.30 |
| 2019 | 471 | #588 | 0.26 |
| 2018 | 379 | #668 | 0.21 |
| 2017 | 291 | #792 | 0.16 |
| 2016 | 259 | #867 | 0.14 |
Every recorded year (23)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 215 | #960 | 0.11 |
| 2014 | 126 | #1,357 | 0.07 |
| 2013 | 82 | #1,770 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 88 | #1,717 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 63 | #2,111 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 42 | #2,841 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 28 | #3,760 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 28 | #3,768 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 15 | #5,754 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 8 | #9,021 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 12 | #6,364 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 5 | #12,020 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 7 | #8,800 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Huxley a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 5,230 Americans recorded as Huxley, 9% are girls and 91% boys. In 2025 it went to 36 girls and 357 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Huxley: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Huxley, and how old are they?
5,190 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 5,230 Americans ever recorded as Huxley. The median Huxley alive today is 6 years old; half are between 4 and 9.
The 2020 Census counted 2,296 people named Huxley (234 women and girls, 2,062 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,473 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 304 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,890 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Huxley born?
The states with the most babies named Huxley are Texas, Wisconsin and Ohio, with 22% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Wisconsin is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 30 | #861 | 0.5× |
| Wisconsin | 24 | #250 | 2.4× |
| Ohio | 19 | #547 | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 15 | #551 | 0.6× |
| California | 14 | #1,326 | 0.5× |
| Minnesota | 13 | #432 | 2.1× |
| Missouri | 13 | #469 | 1.5× |
| Colorado | 13 | #446 | 1.3× |
| Tennessee | 13 | #565 | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 13 | #698 | 0.6× |
Where Huxley is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Huxley is most over-represented in Iowa: since 2002 it was given 3.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Huxley with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 5,641 babies since 1880, Huxley is the most given (93% of them). In 2025 it was given to 393 of their 437 babies (90%), again the 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 Huxley
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 Huxley and names like it
- Compare Huxley and HuxleeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sHuxley peaked in 2020.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Huxley since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Huxley: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Huxley.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Huxley alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with HMost given first.