Hyde
#5,957 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Hyde has been given to 314 babies in the U.S. since 2004. In 2025 it ranked #5,957 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 30 recorded.
Babies named Hyde, 2025
1 in 221,000
Hyde 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Hyde?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 221,000
- 15 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 114,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #5,957
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 153,194 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Hyde sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hyde. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Hydes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Hyde was born before 2017 — so the typical Hyde is around 8 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 48.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 314
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 48.1% of all recorded uses (151).
Is Hyde 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
- +1,029
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,196
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +1,733
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.50×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 50.0%
- Peak was 2017 (30)
- Years since peak
- 8
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 31.9% average annual change
Spellings of Hyde
Hyde is not the most common spelling — Kyle is, with 39.9% against Hyde's 0.03%.
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.
Hyde around the world
Where Hyde 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.
- Canada2022–2022#2,959in 2022
Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Hyde by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Hyde
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Hyde
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.