girls:
89 births since 1977
#5627 (2nd percentile)
boys:
476 births since 1913
#4110 (10th percentile)
overall:
565 births since 1913
#7174 (7th percentile)
The name Hue is the #7,174 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 565 recorded births since 1913. This represents the 7.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 7.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,110 (10.3% percentile) for all time with 476 births since 1913. For girls, it ranks #5,627 (1.5% percentile) for all time with 89 births since 1977.
Hue first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1913 (1913 for boys and 1977 for girls). Birth data for Hue is available in 63 out of the 110 years between 1913 and 2022 (61 years for boys and 12 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 Hue has been given predominantly to boys, with 84.2% of all recorded births being male. In 2022, 100.0% of babies named Hue were boys.
For boys, Hue reached its peak popularity in 1931, achieving the 1.7% percentile (ranked #511) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 1931, with 13 births per million (ranked 1.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
For girls, Hue reached its peak popularity in 1983, achieving the 0.9% percentile (ranked #768) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1983, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.9% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1994.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Hue".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Hue. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 73.2% confident that Hue is pronounced as hyue, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is hue, at 26.8% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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