Boy Names That Start With H
Boys' names beginning with H, ranked by how many babies actually got them — not by editorial preference — plus which ones are climbing and how the letter itself has moved.
- Share of boys, 2025
- 3.0%
- vs 1.7% in 2000
- Names in use
- 400
- 1,268 recorded since 1880
- Letter peaked
- 1889
- at 7.7% of names
- Rank among 26 letters
- #15
- by 2025 share
How H has fared since 1880
Share of all listed U.S. births given a name starting with H, year by year. Plotted as a share rather than a count — raw counts track how many babies were born, so every letter would appear to peak in 1957.
| Save name | Name & meaning | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12,020#5 | Up 4 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 230#993 | Down 61 rank positions in five years | 1924 | |||
| 329#775 | Down 56 rank positions in five years | 1918 | |||
| 226#1,004 | Up 40 rank positions in five years | 1921 | |||
| 2,761#130 | Down 62 rank positions in five years | 2000 | |||
| 1,381#251 | Up 165 rank positions in five years | 1921 | |||
| 8,583#17 | Up 26 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 2,268#161 | Up 16 rank positions in five years | 2006 | |||
| 779#409 | Down 44 rank positions in five years | 2005 | |||
| 3,072#116 | Down 2 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 360#732 | Up 17 rank positions in five years | 1916 | |||
| 199#1,083 | Down 302 rank positions in five years | 1994 | |||
| 837#378 | Up 43 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 1,140#297 | Down 70 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 253#932 | Up 60 rank positions in five years | 1974 | |||
| 454#617 | Up 75 rank positions in five years | 1924 | |||
| 2,240#162 | Up 83 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 402#675 | Up 56 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 776#413 | Up 70 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 84#1,876 | Down 361 rank positions in five years | 1992 | |||
| 150#1,300 | Down 304 rank positions in five years | 1921 | |||
| 266#894 | Up 125 rank positions in five years | 1921 | |||
| 146#1,325 | Up 140 rank positions in five years | 1970 | |||
| 103#1,639 | Down 110 rank positions in five years | 1920 | |||
| 933#354 | Down 71 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 447#626 | Up 191 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 621#485 | Up 93 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 556#541 | Up 119 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 117#1,502 | Down 543 rank positions in five years | 1989 | |||
| 184#1,147 | Up 153 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 95#1,714 | Down 133 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 139#1,354 | Up 112 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 124#1,444 | Up 254 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 357#736 | Down 198 rank positions in five years | 2020 | |||
| 149#1,306 | Up 307 rank positions in five years | 2008 | |||
| 206#1,060 | Down 164 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 103#1,638 | Up 144 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 236#971 | Down 65 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 83#1,894 | Down 255 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 136#1,367 | Up 177 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 167#1,214 | Up 1,032 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 142#1,342 | Up 461 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 90#1,782 | Up 520 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 317#795 | Up 1,326 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 82#1,909 | Down 507 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 90#1,781 | Up 391 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 88#1,814 | Down 232 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 126#1,429 | Up 307 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 129#1,412 | Up 213 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 253#931 | Up 2,744 rank positions in five years | 2025 |
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H names climbing fastest
Biggest H names of all time
By total applications since 1880 — a different list from the one above, because it counts every generation, not just this one.
Every other letter
Sources & methodology
Rankings and counts come from official birth card-application data, 1880–2025. Counts are card applications rather than births, and any name given to fewer than 5 babies of one sex in a year is not published — so “—” means genuinely uncommon, never invalid. The “climbing fastest” row ranks by five-year rank movement as a ratio, and a name must be inside the top 1,000 with at least 200 applications in 2025 to qualify — a looser gate than the site-wide trending list uses, because inside a single letter the stricter one leaves some letters empty. Letter shares are measured over listed names only, and the 25-year comparison is a generation rather than five years because letter fashion moves far more slowly than any one name.