Hartford
- #6,325 for girls in 2025, 18 births
- #6,446 for boys in 2025, 13 births
- Given to boys 86.5% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 1890 · 5 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 456since 1890
Hartford over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,325 | 18 | #6,446 | 13 |
| 2024 | #6,932 | 16 | #8,987 | 8 |
| 2023 | #7,640 | 14 | #8,255 | 9 |
| 2022 | #7,281 | 15 | #8,990 | 8 |
| 2021 | #11,146 | 8 | #6,335 | 13 |
| 2020 | — | — | ||
| 2019 | — | #9,756 | 7 | |
| 2018 | — | #9,670 | 7 | |
| 2017 | — | — | ||
| 2016 | — | #12,185 | 5 | |
| 2015 | — | #9,568 | 7 | |
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| 2002 | — | #10,667 | 5 | |
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| 1973 | — | #5,101 | 5 | |
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| 1971 | — | #4,375 | 6 | |
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| 1966 | — | #3,948 | 5 | |
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| 1964 | — | #3,601 | 6 | |
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| 1961 | — | #3,652 | 6 | |
| 1960 | — | #3,665 | 6 | |
| 1959 | — | #3,619 | 6 | |
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| 1954 | — | #3,827 | 5 | |
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| 1951 | — | #3,364 | 6 | |
| 1950 | — | #2,770 | 8 | |
| 1949 | — | #3,019 | 7 | |
| 1948 | — | #3,316 | 6 | |
| 1947 | — | — | ||
| 1946 | — | #3,525 | 5 | |
| 1945 | — | #2,743 | 7 | |
| 1944 | — | #3,109 | 6 | |
| 1943 | — | #2,563 | 9 | |
| 1942 | — | #3,560 | 5 | |
| 1941 | — | — | ||
| 1940 | — | #2,871 | 7 | |
| 1939 | — | #3,480 | 5 | |
| 1938 | — | #3,175 | 6 | |
| 1937 | — | #1,913 | 14 | |
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| 1934 | — | #2,973 | 7 | |
| 1933 | — | #3,642 | 5 | |
| 1932 | — | — | ||
| 1931 | — | #3,763 | 5 | |
| 1930 | — | #3,592 | 6 | |
| 1929 | — | #2,452 | 11 | |
| 1928 | — | #2,843 | 9 | |
| 1927 | — | #2,523 | 11 | |
| 1926 | — | #3,139 | 8 | |
| 1925 | — | #1,870 | 18 | |
| 1924 | — | #1,776 | 20 | |
| 1923 | — | #2,950 | 9 | |
| 1922 | — | #3,014 | 9 | |
| 1921 | — | #2,502 | 12 | |
| 1920 | — | #2,459 | 12 | |
| 1919 | — | #2,511 | 11 | |
| 1918 | — | #2,165 | 14 | |
| 1917 | — | #2,280 | 12 | |
| 1916 | — | #2,259 | 12 | |
| 1915 | — | #3,082 | 7 | |
| 1914 | — | #2,457 | 8 | |
| 1913 | — | #1,803 | 10 | |
| 1912 | — | #2,045 | 7 | |
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| 1909 | — | #1,440 | 5 | |
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| 1895 | — | #1,079 | 5 | |
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| 1890 | — | #994 | 5 | |
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First appearance
1890
The first year at least five boys were named Hartford! It came in at #994, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1890–1911, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Hartford is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Hartford in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Hartford
Momentum · boys
Brand new
- 3,122 spots since 2015 (#9,568 → #6,446)
Rise & fade · boys
Peaked on debut
- Debuted 1890
- Peaked 1890 at #994 (5 births)
- Births halved by 1891, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 1 yr
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 1890
Share of babies · boys
1 in 22,205
- Highest: 1 in 22,205 boys born in 1890 were named Hartford (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 131,390 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1920s
- 26.1% of all boys named Hartford (119) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2022
- Mostly boys until 2021, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 10 | #994 (1890) | #1,037 |
| 1900s | 5 | #1,440 (1909) | #1,440 |
| 1910s | 81 | #1,803 (1913) | #2,325 |
| 1920s | 119 | #1,776 (1924) | #2,553 |
| 1930s | 48 | #1,913 (1937) | #3,220 |
| 1940s | 52 | #2,563 (1943) | #3,088 |
| 1950s | 25 | #2,770 (1950) | #3,395 |
| 1960s | 23 | #3,601 (1964) | #3,717 |
| 1970s | 11 | #4,375 (1971) | #4,738 |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 0 | — | — |
| 2000s | 5 | #10,667 (2002) | #10,667 |
| 2010s | 26 | #9,568 (2015) | #10,295 |
| 2020s | 51 | #6,335 (2021) | #7,803 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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