Hugo

Where Hugo comes from

From Old French Hugo, of Germanic origin, from Frankish *hugi (“thought, mind, spirit”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Hugo
  • Germanic
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1583
    Hugo Grotius born
    Dutch jurist and scholar
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #350 among boys — 24 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1890
    Peak, #259
    43 babies named Hugo — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1899
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #438.
  5. 1954
    Hugo Chávez born
    Venezuelan politician, 56th president of Venezuela
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from the Germanic languages, a Latinized form of Hugh.
Namesakes
  • Hugo Chávez · Venezuelan politician, 56th president of Venezuela, 1954–2013
  • Hugo Grotius · Dutch jurist and scholar, 1583–1645
  • Hugo Lloris · French footballer, born 1986
  • Hugo von Hofmannsthal · Austrian novelist, librettist, poet, dramatist, 1874–1929
  • Hugo de Vries · Dutch botanist, 1848–1935

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.