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Hektor

Boys' name

Form of Hector

Hektor has been given to 101 babies in the U.S. since 2005. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2009, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Hektor, 2022

1 in 677,000

Hektor over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hektor: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Hector

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Hektor means

Hektor is a form of Hector.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Hektor is used in Greek Mythology.

Another recorded pronunciation is /hék.tɔːr/ for Hektor.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Hektor → Hector. The family’s meaning is “holding fast”, recorded in English with the source elements héktōr.

Origin, language, and formation

Hektor is used in Albanian and Swedish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Hector.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 101 boys were recorded with the name Hektor between 2005 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2009; its best national rank was #7,238 in 2015.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Hektor?

Hektor had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 677,000
5 of 3,385,755 births
Among boys only
1 in 349,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,366 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hektor sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2022 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hektor. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hektors were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hektor was born before 2014 — so the typical Hektor is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
46.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
101
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 46.5% of all recorded uses (47).

Is Hektor rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2009 (11)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,238
2015

Spellings of Hektor

Hektor is not the most common spelling — Hector is, with 86.4% against Hektor's 0.08%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Hektor around the world

Where Hektor ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2008–2025
    #3,256
    in 2025
  • France
    2007–2024
    #6,761
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2007–2007
    #680
    in 2007

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Hektor by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#7,238
2015
Peak year
2009
11 that year
First recorded
2005
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
101
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Hektor

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Hektor

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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