Girl Names That Start With H
Girls' 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 girls, 2025
- 3.3%
- vs 3.8% in 2000
- Names in use
- 496
- 1,335 recorded since 1880
- Letter peaked
- 1915
- at 5.2% of names
- Rank among 26 letters
- #11
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 668#462 | Down 36 rank positions in five years | 1918 | |||
| 177#1,264 | Up 179 rank positions in five years | 1975 | |||
| 3,973#56 | Down 17 rank positions in five years | 2000 | |||
| 6,318#21 | Up 10 rank positions in five years | 1918 | |||
| 751#416 | Up 63 rank positions in five years | 1983 | |||
| 2,556#104 | Down 23 rank positions in five years | 2003 | |||
| 314#861 | Down 345 rank positions in five years | 2000 | |||
| 894#340 | Up 42 rank positions in five years | 1972 | |||
| 6,792#16 | Down 6 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 923#334 | Up 87 rank positions in five years | 1918 | |||
| 868#352 | Down 149 rank positions in five years | 2000 | |||
| 226#1,073 | Up 3 rank positions in five years | 1921 | |||
| 179#1,251 | Down 577 rank positions in five years | 1993 | |||
| 2,254#121 | Down 10 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 580#512 | Up 16 rank positions in five years | 2000 | |||
| 841#363 | Up 149 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 2,260#120 | Up 254 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 1,123#276 | Down 101 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 707#437 | Down 139 rank positions in five years | 2008 | |||
| 748#418 | Down 132 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 556#543 | Down 121 rank positions in five years | 2006 | |||
| 153#1,419 | Down 632 rank positions in five years | 2009 | |||
| 1,642#190 | Up 122 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 491#596 | Up 266 rank positions in five years | 2002 | |||
| 163#1,355 | Down 243 rank positions in five years | 2003 | |||
| 323#842 | Down 10 rank positions in five years | 1998 | |||
| 981#309 | Up 15 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 436#658 | Up 98 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 529#570 | Up 100 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 237#1,048 | Down 303 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 550#550 | Up 158 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 252#1,001 | Down 418 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 125#1,658 | Up 413 rank positions in five years | 2003 | |||
| 252#1,000 | Down 298 rank positions in five years | 2020 | |||
| 206#1,132 | Up 338 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 199#1,166 | Down 159 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 643#479 | Down 106 rank positions in five years | 2020 | |||
| 138#1,534 | Down 542 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 281#931 | Down 72 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 129#1,614 | Down 401 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 322#846 | Up 1,122 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 477#613 | Up 325 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 198#1,171 | Down 202 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 148#1,452 | Up 411 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 148#1,453 | Up 477 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 170#1,313 | Up 140 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 117#1,739 | Up 466 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 145#1,480 | Up 434 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 147#1,462 | Down 85 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 121#1,695 | Up 1,169 rank positions in five years | 2024 |
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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.