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Hector
Pronounced /ˈhɛktɚ/
Rank in 2024
#380
Born in 2024
858
Peak year
2005 · #167
Origin
Ancient Greek
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 858 boys were named Hector, about 1 in every 1,999.
- It peaked in 2005 with 2,458 babies, ranked #167.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 107,937 boys have been named Hector since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Hector per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0.1Greatest1901–27
- 0.2Silent1928–45
- 0.4Boomers1946–64
- 0.7Gen X1965–80
- 0.9Millennials1981–96
- 1.0Gen Z1997–12
- 0.6Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 1,903 babies, 0.11 per 1,000. Silent: 3,474 babies, 0.17 per 1,000. Boomers: 13,221 babies, 0.35 per 1,000. Gen X: 18,585 babies, 0.68 per 1,000. Millennials: 27,550 babies, 0.91 per 1,000. Gen Z: 30,781 babies, 0.98 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 12,206 babies, 0.56 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From Latin Hectōr or Ancient Greek Ἕκτωρ (Héktōr), from ἕκτωρ (héktōr, “holding fast”), from ἔχω (ékhō, “to have, hold”), from Proto-Indo-European *seǵʰ- (“to hold; to overpower”). Sometimes used as an anglicization of various Scottish Gaelic names, including Eachann and Eochaid. The thundercloud cluster was named by pilots during the Second World War.
- A male given name from Ancient Greek.
- Origin
- Ancient Greek
- Say it
- /ˈhɛktɚ/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Hector, CC BY-SA 4.0.