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Hamilton

Pronounced /ˈhæməltən/

Rank in 2024
#2,651
Born in 2024
50
Peak year
2016 · #1638
Origin
Not recorded

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 50 boys were named Hamilton, about 1 in every 34,306.
  • It peaked in 2016 with 98 babies, ranked #1638.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 6,479 boys have been named Hamilton since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Hamilton per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

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Greatest: 1,207 babies, 0.07 per 1,000. Silent: 707 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Boomers: 672 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen X: 618 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Millennials: 1,044 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Gen Z: 1,059 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 902 babies, 0.04 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

From Old English *Hameldūne, from hamel (“blunt, flat-topped”) + dūne (“hill”). The Scottish surname is from the place in Leicestershire. The dollar-bill sense is from the portrait of Alexander Hamilton featured on it.

  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
Origin
Not recorded
Say it
/ˈhæməltən/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Hamilton, CC BY-SA 4.0.