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Huguette

Girls' name

Heart, mind, through Hugues

Huguette has been given to 22 babies in the U.S. since 1934. 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 1934, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Huguette, 1954

1 in 796,000

Huguette over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Huguette: meaning, origin, and history

Heart, mind, through Hugues

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Huguette means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Huguette is used in French.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Hugues.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Huguette is pronounced /y.ɡɛt/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 22 girls were recorded with the name Huguette between 1934 and 1954. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1934; its best national rank was #4,010 in 1934.

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 Huguette?

Huguette had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1954, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1954
1 in 796,000
5 of 3,979,464 births
Among girls only
1 in 388,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1954
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
551,672 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Huguette sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1954 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 551,672 children born in 1954 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Huguette. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Huguettes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Huguette was born before 1937 — so the typical Huguette is around 88 today.

Median birth year
1937
About 88 years old
Biggest decade
1930s
50.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5
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1930s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (11).

Is Huguette 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 1934 (6)
Years since peak
91
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#4,010
1934

Huguette around the world

Where Huguette 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.

  • France
    1900–2005
    #4,703
    in 2005

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Huguette by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#4,010
1934
Peak year
1934
6 that year
First recorded
1934
Last recorded
1954
All-time count
22
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Huguette

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

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Sibling names for Huguette

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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