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Hugo

Pronounced /ˈhjuː.ɡəʊ/

Rank in 2024
#405
Born in 2024
797
Peak year
2006 · #370
Origin
Germanic

1880 to 2024

Steady
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 797 boys were named Hugo, about 1 in every 2,152.
  • It peaked in 2006 with 811 babies, ranked #370.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 36,638 boys have been named Hugo since 1880.

Who else has this name

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

  1. 0.2
    Greatest
  2. <0.1
    Silent
  3. <0.1
    Boomers
  4. 0.1
    Gen X
  5. 0.2
    Millennials
  6. 0.3
    Gen Z
  7. 0.4
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 2,899 babies, 0.17 per 1,000. Silent: 1,409 babies, 0.07 per 1,000. Boomers: 1,534 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Gen X: 3,283 babies, 0.12 per 1,000. Millennials: 7,306 babies, 0.24 per 1,000. Gen Z: 10,895 babies, 0.35 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 8,701 babies, 0.40 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

From Old French Hugo, of Germanic origin, from Frankish *hugi (“thought, mind, spirit”).

  • A male given name from the Germanic languages, a Latinized form of Hugh.
Origin
Germanic
Say it
/ˈhjuː.ɡəʊ/

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