Huy
Huy was given to 10 boys in 2025, #7,870 among boys’ names; 1,715 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,650 Americans named Huy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 33 years old and half are between 23 and 41.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Huy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Huy mean?
Wiktionary, Vietnamese section
Huy is “a male given name from Chinese”
[hwi˧˧]
Meaning: Wiktionary, Vietnamese section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Huy?
#7,870 among boys’ names, 2025
Huy fell from #4,606 in 2015 to #7,870 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 11.0 to 5.9 per million.
82 babies in 1982, the peak
Huy peaked in 1982, when 82 boys were given it, #999 among boys’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 12% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #7,870 | 5.9 |
| 2024 | 8 | #9,325 | 4.6 |
| 2023 | 9 | #8,493 | 5.3 |
| 2022 | 12 | #6,969 | 6.9 |
| 2021 | 9 | #8,421 | 5.1 |
| 2020 | 11 | #7,196 | 6.4 |
| 2019 | 15 | #5,920 | 8.4 |
| 2018 | 13 | #6,491 | 7.2 |
| 2017 | 14 | #6,143 | 7.6 |
| 2016 | 7 | #10,056 | 3.7 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 21 | #4,606 | 11.0 |
| 2014 | 23 | #4,306 | 12.0 |
| 2013 | 18 | #5,043 | 9.5 |
| 2012 | 18 | #5,107 | 9.5 |
| 2011 | 27 | #3,829 | 14.2 |
| 2010 | 20 | #4,739 | 10.4 |
| 2009 | 30 | #3,588 | 15.1 |
| 2008 | 25 | #4,071 | 12.3 |
| 2007 | 20 | #4,699 | 9.6 |
| 2006 | 36 | #3,048 | 17.5 |
| 2005 | 39 | #2,765 | 19.5 |
| 2004 | 25 | #3,676 | 12.6 |
| 2003 | 33 | #2,951 | 16.7 |
| 2002 | 42 | #2,407 | 21.6 |
| 2001 | 33 | #2,828 | 17.0 |
| 2000 | 26 | #3,235 | 13.2 |
| 1999 | 42 | #2,210 | 21.9 |
| 1998 | 37 | #2,362 | 19.4 |
| 1997 | 49 | #1,897 | 26.0 |
| 1996 | 42 | #2,053 | 22.2 |
| 1995 | 43 | #1,960 | 22.6 |
| 1994 | 45 | #1,868 | 23.3 |
| 1993 | 48 | #1,770 | 24.5 |
| 1992 | 53 | #1,643 | 26.5 |
| 1991 | 54 | #1,573 | 26.7 |
| 1990 | 49 | #1,666 | 23.9 |
| 1989 | 57 | #1,460 | 28.5 |
| 1988 | 43 | #1,649 | 22.5 |
| 1987 | 56 | #1,322 | 30.0 |
| 1986 | 55 | #1,328 | 29.9 |
| 1985 | 62 | #1,195 | 33.5 |
| 1984 | 66 | #1,117 | 36.6 |
| 1983 | 78 | #1,003 | 43.5 |
| 1982 | 82 | #999 | 45.2 |
| 1981 | 73 | #1,068 | 40.8 |
| 1980 | 50 | #1,331 | 28.0 |
| 1979 | 23 | #2,189 | 13.4 |
| 1978 | 24 | #2,032 | 14.6 |
| 1977 | 16 | #2,708 | 9.7 |
| 1976 | 11 | #3,358 | 7.0 |
| 1975 | 13 | #2,974 | 8.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Huy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Huy has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 51 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Huy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Huy, and how old are they?
1,650 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,715 Americans ever recorded as Huy. The median Huy alive today is 33 years old; half are between 23 and 41.
The 2020 Census counted 9,013 people named Huy (217 women and girls, 8,796 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,609 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5.6 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 126 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 858 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 493 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 169 |
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 Huy born?
The states with the most babies named Huy are California, Texas and Louisiana, with 95% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Louisiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 488 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Texas | 195 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Louisiana | 28 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Massachusetts | 18 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| New York | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Huy is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Huy is most over-represented in California: since 1975 it was given 2.2 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 Huy 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 9,538 babies since 1880, Huy is the second most given (18% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 52 babies (19%), 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 Huy
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 Huy and names like it
- Compare Huy and HueyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sHuy peaked in 1982.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Huy since 1910.
- Chinese namesWiktionary’s origin for Huy: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1982The year the most babies were named Huy.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Huy alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with HMost given first.