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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Hugh

Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation

2025 rank

#732

up +30 places

2025 births

360

up +27 births

All-time births

83,825

0% of them in 2025

More common than

99%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1916
1,619 births
Best rank
#69
in 1887
First recorded
1880
#71 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1943
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
146 of 146
unbroken

Top five years

  1. 19161,619#96Peak
  2. 19241,541#116
  3. 19181,489#112
  4. 19201,489#115
  5. 19211,485#120

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #69 in 1887 · peak births 1,619 in 1916

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 100% boys■ 0% girls

83,825 boys · 354 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Hugh has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.