girls:
1.7k births since 1995
#4050 (29th percentile)
boys:
97.6k births since 1880
#309 (93rd percentile)
overall:
99.4k births since 1880
#686 (91st percentile)
The name Hudson is the #686 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 99,353 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 91.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 91.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #309 (93.3% percentile) for all time with 97,639 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #4,050 (29.1% percentile) for all time with 1,714 births since 1995.
Hudson has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1995 for girls). Birth data for Hudson is available in 137 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (137 years for boys and 29 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 Hudson has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.3% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Hudson reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 97.8% percentile (ranked #21) with 4,333 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 4,333 births per million (ranked 97.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1986, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Hudson is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #21 (97.8% percentile) with 4,333 births per million.
For girls, Hudson reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 12.9% percentile (ranked #834) with 66 births per million. The name was most common in 2017, with 66 births per million (ranked 12.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Hudson ranks #869 for girls (8.2% percentile) with 47 births per million, which is 71.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Hudson".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Hudson. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 89.7% confident that Hudson is pronounced as HUHD-suhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is HOOD-suhn, at 10.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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