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Howard
Pronounced /ˈhaʊəd/
Rank in 2024
#1,054
Born in 2024
207
Peak year
1921 · #27
Origin
Germanic
Also recorded for girls:0 in 2024
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 207 boys were named Howard, about 1 in every 8,287.
- It peaked in 1921 with 7,713 babies, ranked #27.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 346,444 boys have been named Howard since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Howard per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 6.7Greatest1901–27
- 4.6Silent1928–45
- 2.3Boomers1946–64
- 0.9Gen X1965–80
- 0.3Millennials1981–96
- 0.1Gen Z1997–12
- 0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 111,673 babies, 6.68 per 1,000. Silent: 94,995 babies, 4.60 per 1,000. Boomers: 87,282 babies, 2.32 per 1,000. Gen X: 25,718 babies, 0.94 per 1,000. Millennials: 9,111 babies, 0.30 per 1,000. Gen Z: 4,047 babies, 0.13 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 2,541 babies, 0.12 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
Medieval personal name from Middle English Howard, Howarde, from Old Norse Hávarðr, from hár (“high”) + varðr (“guard”). In some cases a variant of Heward, from Old French Huard.
- A male given name from the Germanic languages, transferred back from the surname. Short form: Howie.
- Origin
- Germanic
- Say it
- /ˈhaʊəd/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Howard, CC BY-SA 4.0.