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Hugh
Pronounced /hjuː/
Rank in 2024
#763
Born in 2024
332
Peak year
1916 · #96
Origin
Germanic
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 332 boys were named Hugh, about 1 in every 5,167.
- It peaked in 1916 with 1,619 babies, ranked #96.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 83,466 boys have been named Hugh since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Hugh per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 1.4Greatest1901–27
- 1.0Silent1928–45
- 0.5Boomers1946–64
- 0.2Gen X1965–80
- 0.1Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- 0.2Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 23,591 babies, 1.41 per 1,000. Silent: 20,930 babies, 1.01 per 1,000. Boomers: 18,173 babies, 0.48 per 1,000. Gen X: 6,083 babies, 0.22 per 1,000. Millennials: 3,056 babies, 0.10 per 1,000. Gen Z: 3,106 babies, 0.10 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 3,477 babies, 0.16 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From the Old French aristocratic and saint's name Hughe, brought to England by Normans, from a short form of Germanic names beginning with Proto-Germanic *hugiz (“heart, mind”), such as Hubert. Cognate with Old English hyġe (“mind, spirit, intellect”). More at high, how.
- A male given name from the Germanic languages.
- Origin
- Germanic
- Say it
- /hjuː/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Hugh, CC BY-SA 4.0.