Hoover
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Hoover has been given to 1,127 babies in the U.S. since 1913. 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 1928, with 256 recorded.
Babies named Hoover, 2022
1 in 564,000
Hoover over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Hoover?
Hoover 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 564,000
- 6 of 3,385,755 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 291,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2022
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 391,139 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Hoover sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 391,139 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hoover. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Hoovers were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Hoover was born before 1929 — so the typical Hoover is around 96 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 51.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 0.54%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 197
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 51.6% of all recorded uses (578).
Is Hoover 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
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1928 (256)
- Years since peak
- 97
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 28.7% average annual change
Spellings of Hoover
Hoover is not the most common spelling — Cooper is, with 53.7% against Hoover's 0.49%.
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.
Where Hoover is used
Across 1910–2025, Hoover was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 141,485 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Alabama1 in 33,333
- 2Arkansas1 in 50,000
- 3Mississippi1 in 50,000
- 4North Carolina1 in 50,000
- 5Georgia1 in 100,000
- 6Hawaii1 in 100,000
- 7Kentucky1 in 100,000
- 8Oklahoma1 in 100,000
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Hoover has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Hoover by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Hoover
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Hoover
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.