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Humphrey

Boys' name

To grant, bestow + peace

Humphrey has been given to 1,085 babies in the U.S. since 1880. 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 1924, with 22 recorded.

Babies named Humphrey, 2024

1 in 418,000

Humphrey over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Humphrey: meaning, origin, and history

To grant, bestow + peace

Germanic languages

What Humphrey means

Humphrey means “to grant, bestow + peace”, associated with unnaną and friþuz.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Name of a 9th-century French saint, brought to England by Normans; Proto-Germanic *unnaną (“to grant, bestow”) + *friþuz (“peace”). In Ireland it has been used to Anglicize Irish Amhlaoibh (= Olaf).

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Origin, language, and formation

Humphrey is used in English. Its origins include Germanic languages.

Humphrey comes through Proto-Germanic *unnaną.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Amhlaoibh.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Humphrey is pronounced /ˈhʌmfɹi/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,085 boys were recorded with the name Humphrey between 1880 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 22 in 1924; its best national rank was #678 in 1893.

How common is Humphrey?

Humphrey had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 418,000
8 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 215,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
289,633 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Humphrey 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 2024 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 289,633 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Humphrey. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Humphreys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Humphrey was born before 1945 — so the typical Humphrey is around 80 today.

Median birth year
1945
About 80 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
13.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
8.8%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
488
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 13.9% of all recorded uses (151).

Is Humphrey 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 1924 (22)
Years since peak
101
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#678
1893

Where Humphrey is used

Across 1910–2025, Humphrey was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 657,371 across all states with data. It was least common in Massachusetts (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Kentucky1 in —
  2. 2Massachusetts1 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. Humphrey has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Humphrey around the world

Where Humphrey 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
    #1,897
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    1964–1984
    #274
    in 1984
  • France
    1981–1996
    #3,608
    in 1996
  • South Australia
    1949–1949
    #258
    in 1949

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

Humphrey 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
—
Best rank ever
#678
1893
Peak year
1924
22 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
1,085
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Humphrey

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

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Sibling names for Humphrey

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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