Hughey

Last seen for boys in 1962 at #4,033

Peak · boys
1894 · 8 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
405
since 1893

Hughey over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Hughey has never cracked the top 700 here.

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201894peak #787, 1894boys
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1962#4,0335
1961#3,6526
1960#4,0385
1959#3,0378
1958#3,9445
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1956#2,62810
1955#3,5056
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1953#3,7985
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1949#2,8028
1948#3,0107
1947#2,35611
1946#3,5255
1945#2,3939
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1943#2,5639
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1941#2,6568
1940#2,32210
1939#2,8297
1938#2,8687
1937#2,08812
1936#2,30110
1935#2,12712
1934#2,5639
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1932#3,7765
1931#2,20712
1930#2,7819
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1928#3,3577
1927#2,70310
1926#2,72510
1925#2,19314
1924#2,04316
1923#3,1758
1922#3,5327
1921#2,9869
1920#2,23114
1919#2,06315
1918#2,69910
1917#1,58721
1916#2,04314
1915#1,78216
1914#2,6517
1913#1,9459
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1897#1,0575
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First appearance
1893

The first year at least five boys were named Hughey! It came in at #1,035, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1895–1912, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Hughey is popular in 1894

The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.

See more about Hughey
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1962
  • Biggest jump: 248 spots in 1894 (#1,035 → #787)
Rise & fade · boys
1 yr to peak
  • Debuted 1893
  • Peaked 1894 at #787 (8 births)
  • Births halved by 1895, 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 · 1894
Share of babies · boys
1 in 14,471
  • Highest: 1 in 14,471 boys born in 1894 were named Hughey (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 413,754 boys born in 1962 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1920s
  • 23.5% of all boys named Hughey (95) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1890s18#787 (1894)#960
1900s0——
1910s92#1,587 (1917)#2,110
1920s95#2,043 (1924)#2,772
1930s83#2,088 (1937)#2,616
1940s67#2,322 (1940)#2,703
1950s34#2,628 (1956)#3,382
1960s16#3,652 (1961)#3,908

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.

Hughey in 1894

boys
#787
8 births · 1 in 14,471 boys

Top boys' names in 1894

  1. #1John8,237
  2. #2William7,274
  3. #3James5,110
  4. #4George4,365
  5. #5Charles3,788
  6. #6Joseph2,977
  7. #7Frank2,863
  8. #8Robert2,497
  9. #9Henry2,278
  10. #10Harry2,189
  11. #787Hughey8
More about 1894

boys

115,768 boys got a published name in 1894; 1 in 14,471 of them was named Hughey, which outranked 36.5% of the 1,239 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 35.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Hughey
  1. #730Wellington9
  2. #730West9
  3. #730Zeno9
  4. #787Hughey8
  5. #787Addie8
  6. #787Alden8
  7. #787Antone8
  8. #857Agnes7
  9. #857Alfonso7
  10. #857Alfredo7

Tied with 69 names at #787; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1893
Risers
  1. ↑ 514Levy#1,035 → #521
  2. ↑ 514Orrin#1,035 → #521
  3. ↑ 488Alvie#907 → #419
  4. ↑ 468Jonnie#1,035 → #567
  5. ↑ 441Carson#1,035 → #594
Fallers
  1. ↓ 683Lindsay#391 → #1,074
  2. ↓ 519Minnie#435 → #954
  3. ↓ 475Ludwig#479 → #954
  4. ↓ 459Alice#615 → #1,074
  5. ↓ 459Julia#615 → #1,074

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1894 →