girls:
28 births since 1982
#5688 (0th percentile)
boys:
821 births since 1976
#3766 (18th percentile)
overall:
849 births since 1976
#6890 (11th percentile)
The name Hieu is the #6,890 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 849 recorded births since 1976. This represents the 10.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 10.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,766 (17.8% percentile) for all time with 821 births since 1976. For girls, it ranks #5,688 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 28 births since 1982.
Hieu first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1976 (1976 for boys and 1982 for girls). Birth data for Hieu is available in 44 out of the 48 years between 1976 and 2023 (44 years for boys and 4 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 Hieu has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 96.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Hieu reached its peak popularity in 1984, achieving the 4.8% percentile (ranked #655) with 20 births per million. The name was most common in 1984, with 20 births per million (ranked 4.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Hieu ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 13.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Hieu reached its peak popularity in 1984, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #784) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1984, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1988.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Hieu".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Hieu. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 69.7% confident that Hieu is pronounced as HEE-ue, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is hyue, at 21.2% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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