girls:
5 births since 2014
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
60 births since 1912
#4526 (1st percentile)
overall:
65 births since 1912
#7674 (1st percentile)
The name Hastings is the #7,674 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 65 recorded births since 1912. This represents the 0.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,526 (1.2% percentile) for all time with 60 births since 1912. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 2014.
Hastings first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1912 (1912 for boys and 2014 for girls). Birth data for Hastings is available in 9 out of the 112 years between 1912 and 2023 (8 years for boys and 1 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Hastings has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 92.3% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Hastings reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 0.9% percentile (ranked #903) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1912, with 13 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Hastings ranks #903 for boys (0.9% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 53.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Hastings reached its peak popularity in 2014, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #967) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2014, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2014.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Hastings".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Hastings. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 52.5% confident that Hastings is pronounced as HAYS-tihngz, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is HAS-tihngz, at 20.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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