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Hughie

#10,064 in 2025Boys' name

Diminutive of Hugh

Hughie has been given to 1,676 babies in the U.S. since 1888. In 2025 it ranked #10,064 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1925, with 48 recorded.

Babies named Hughie, 2025

1 in 474,000

Hughie over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hughie: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Hugh

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Hughie means

Hughie is a diminutive of Hugh.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Hughie → Hugh. The family’s meaning is “heart, mind”, recorded in English with the source elements hugiz.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Hugh + -ie. Regarding rain, various etymologies have been proposed; see Send 'er down, Hughie!.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Hughie (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Hughie is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Hugh.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,676 boys were recorded with the name Hughie between 1888 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 48 in 1925; its best national rank was #724 in 1888.

How common is Hughie?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 244,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#10,064
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hughie 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hughie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hughies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hughie was born before 1933 — so the typical Hughie is around 92 today.

Median birth year
1933
About 92 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
22.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
0.89%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
401
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Choose a decade

1920s — 22.5% of all recorded uses (377).

Is Hughie 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
14.6%
Peak was 1925 (48)
Years since peak
100
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#724
1888

Spellings of Hughie

Hughie is not the most common spelling — Hugh is, with 96.2% against Hughie's 1.9%.

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 Hughie is used

Across 1910–2025, Hughie was most concentrated in Arkansas — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 354,224 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arkansas1 in 100,000
  2. 2Tennessee1 in 100,000
  3. 3Alabama1 in —
  4. 4Georgia1 in —
  5. 5Kentucky1 in —
  6. 6Mississippi1 in —
  7. 7North Carolina1 in —
  8. 8Oklahoma1 in —

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. Hughie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Hughie around the world

Where Hughie 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
    1996–2025
    #342
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2009–2025
    #333
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2011–2025
    #395
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    1986–2025
    #372
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2022–2024
    #2,855
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1949–2008
    #726
    in 2008

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Hughie by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#10,064
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#724
1888
Peak year
1925
48 that year
First recorded
1888
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,676
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Hughie

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

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Sibling names for Hughie

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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