Baby Names That Start With H
Girls' and boys' names beginning with H, ranked by how many babies actually got them, plus how the letter itself has risen or fallen over the last century.
- Girls with H, 2025
- 3.3%
- vs 3.8% in 2000
- Girls' H names in use
- 496
- 1,335 recorded since 1880
- Girls' peak
- 1915
- at 5.2% of names
- Boys with H, 2025
- 3.0%
- vs 1.7% in 2000
- Boys' H names in use
- 400
- 1,268 recorded since 1880
- Boys' peak
- 1889
- at 7.7% of names
How H has fared since 1880
Share of all listed U.S. births given a name starting with H, year by year. Plotted as a share rather than a count — raw counts track how many babies were born, so every letter would appear to peak in 1957.
| Save name | Name & meaning | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 668#462 | Down 36 rank positions in five years | 1918 | |||
| 12,020#5 | Up 4 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 230#993 | Down 61 rank positions in five years | 1924 | |||
| 177#1,264 | Up 179 rank positions in five years | 1975 | |||
| 3,973#56 | Down 17 rank positions in five years | 2000 | |||
| 329#775 | Down 56 rank positions in five years | 1918 | |||
| 226#1,004 | Up 40 rank positions in five years | 1921 | |||
| 6,318#21 | Up 10 rank positions in five years | 1918 | |||
| 2,761#130 | Down 62 rank positions in five years | 2000 | |||
| 751#416 | Up 63 rank positions in five years | 1983 | |||
| 2,556#104 | Down 23 rank positions in five years | 2003 | |||
| 314#861 | Down 345 rank positions in five years | 2000 | |||
| 894#340 | Up 42 rank positions in five years | 1972 | |||
| 6,792#16 | Down 6 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 1,381#251 | Up 165 rank positions in five years | 1921 | |||
| 8,583#17 | Up 26 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 2,268#161 | Up 16 rank positions in five years | 2006 | |||
| 779#409 | Down 44 rank positions in five years | 2005 | |||
| 923#334 | Up 87 rank positions in five years | 1918 | |||
| 3,072#116 | Down 2 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 868#352 | Down 149 rank positions in five years | 2000 | |||
| 226#1,073 | Up 3 rank positions in five years | 1921 | |||
| 360#732 | Up 17 rank positions in five years | 1916 | |||
| 179#1,251 | Down 577 rank positions in five years | 1993 | |||
| 2,254#121 | Down 10 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 580#512 | Up 16 rank positions in five years | 2000 | |||
| 199#1,083 | Down 302 rank positions in five years | 1994 | |||
| 841#363 | Up 149 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 2,260#120 | Up 254 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 837#378 | Up 43 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 1,123#276 | Down 101 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 707#437 | Down 139 rank positions in five years | 2008 | |||
| 1,140#297 | Down 70 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 748#418 | Down 132 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 556#543 | Down 121 rank positions in five years | 2006 | |||
| 153#1,419 | Down 632 rank positions in five years | 2009 | |||
| 253#932 | Up 60 rank positions in five years | 1974 | |||
| 454#617 | Up 75 rank positions in five years | 1924 | |||
| 1,642#190 | Up 122 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 2,240#162 | Up 83 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 402#675 | Up 56 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 776#413 | Up 70 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 84#1,876 | Down 361 rank positions in five years | 1992 | |||
| 491#596 | Up 266 rank positions in five years | 2002 | |||
| 163#1,355 | Down 243 rank positions in five years | 2003 | |||
| 150#1,300 | Down 304 rank positions in five years | 1921 | |||
| 266#894 | Up 125 rank positions in five years | 1921 | |||
| 146#1,325 | Up 140 rank positions in five years | 1970 | |||
| 103#1,639 | Down 110 rank positions in five years | 1920 | |||
| 323#842 | Down 10 rank positions in five years | 1998 | |||
| 981#309 | Up 15 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 933#354 | Down 71 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 436#658 | Up 98 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 447#626 | Up 191 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 621#485 | Up 93 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 556#541 | Up 119 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 529#570 | Up 100 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 237#1,048 | Down 303 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 550#550 | Up 158 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 252#1,001 | Down 418 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 125#1,658 | Up 413 rank positions in five years | 2003 | |||
| 117#1,502 | Down 543 rank positions in five years | 1989 | |||
| 252#1,000 | Down 298 rank positions in five years | 2020 | |||
| 206#1,132 | Up 338 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 199#1,166 | Down 159 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 643#479 | Down 106 rank positions in five years | 2020 | |||
| 184#1,147 | Up 153 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 95#1,714 | Down 133 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 138#1,534 | Down 542 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 281#931 | Down 72 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 129#1,614 | Down 401 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 139#1,354 | Up 112 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 124#1,444 | Up 254 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 322#846 | Up 1,122 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 357#736 | Down 198 rank positions in five years | 2020 | |||
| 477#613 | Up 325 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 198#1,171 | Down 202 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 149#1,306 | Up 307 rank positions in five years | 2008 | |||
| 206#1,060 | Down 164 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 103#1,638 | Up 144 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 236#971 | Down 65 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 83#1,894 | Down 255 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 136#1,367 | Up 177 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 167#1,214 | Up 1,032 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 148#1,452 | Up 411 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 142#1,342 | Up 461 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 90#1,782 | Up 520 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 148#1,453 | Up 477 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 170#1,313 | Up 140 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 117#1,739 | Up 466 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 145#1,480 | Up 434 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 147#1,462 | Down 85 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 317#795 | Up 1,326 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 121#1,695 | Up 1,169 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 82#1,909 | Down 507 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 90#1,781 | Up 391 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 88#1,814 | Down 232 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 126#1,429 | Up 307 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 129#1,412 | Up 213 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 253#931 | Up 2,744 rank positions in five years | 2025 |
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H names climbing fastest
Biggest H names of all time
By total applications since 1880 — a different list from the one above, because it counts every generation, not just this one.
H names climbing fastest
Biggest H names of all time
By total applications since 1880 — a different list from the one above, because it counts every generation, not just this one.
Every other letter
Sources & methodology
Rankings and counts come from official birth card-application data, 1880–2025. Counts are card applications rather than births, and any name given to fewer than 5 babies of one sex in a year is not published — so “—” means genuinely uncommon, never invalid. The “climbing fastest” row ranks by five-year rank movement as a ratio, and a name must be inside the top 1,000 with at least 200 applications in 2025 to qualify — a looser gate than the site-wide trending list uses, because inside a single letter the stricter one leaves some letters empty. Letter shares are measured over listed names only, and the 25-year comparison is a generation rather than five years because letter fashion moves far more slowly than any one name.