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Huey

#2,954 in 2025Boys' name

Heart, mind, through Hugh

Huey has been given to 7,103 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #2,954 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1935, with 494 recorded.

Babies named Huey, 2025

1 in 78,900

Huey over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Huey: meaning, origin, and history

Heart, mind, through Hugh

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Huey means

Huey belongs to the name family reached through Huey → Hugh. Its meaning is “heart, mind”.

Origin, language, and formation

Huey is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Hugh and Hubert.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Huey is pronounced /ˈhjuː.i/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7,098 boys were recorded with the name Huey between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 494 in 1935; its best national rank was #237 in 1935.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,521 in 2020 to #2,954 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,828 in 2015 to #2,954 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Huey between 1928 and 1928. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1928; its best national rank was #5,022 in 1928.

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 Huey?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 78,900
42 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 40,700
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,954
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
54,713 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Huey 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 2025 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 54,713 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Huey. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hueys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Huey was born before 1939 — so the typical Huey is around 86 today.

Median birth year
1939
About 86 years old
Biggest decade
1930s
30.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
7.2%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
2,636
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1930s — 30.6% of all recorded uses (2,169).

Is Huey 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
−25
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+567
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,874
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.80×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
8.5%
Peak was 1935 (494)
Years since peak
90
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#237
1935

Spellings of Huey

Huey is not the most common spelling — Guy is, with 22.2% against Huey's 1.7%.

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 Huey is used

Across 1910–2025, Huey was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 1,266 boys, against 1 in 21,522 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

079 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 1,266
  2. 2Alabama1 in 4,545
  3. 3Mississippi1 in 7,143
  4. 4Arkansas1 in 10,000
  5. 5Georgia1 in 20,000
  6. 6Texas1 in 33,333
  7. 7Tennessee1 in 50,000
  8. 8Florida1 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. Huey has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Huey around the world

Where Huey 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
    2000–2025
    #1,197
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2011–2022
    #703
    in 2022
  • Ireland
    2014–2014
    #715
    in 2014
  • France
    2020–2022
    #6,608
    in 2022
  • Canada
    2017–2023
    #2,216
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1999–2011
    #784
    in 2011

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

Notable people named Huey

People whose public names include Huey, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Huey by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,954
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 567
Best rank ever
#237
1935
Peak year
1935
494 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
7,098
Count in 2025
42

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,022
1928
Peak year
1928
5 that year
First recorded
1928
Last recorded
1928
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Huey

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

HuelHueDueyHuestonHuellRueyLueyHuebertDruey

Names with a curve like Huey

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Huey, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

CarolBobbieKayBettyNormandArlenMarlynDonalBoyceMaxieMerlynArlin

Sibling names for Huey

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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