girls:
5 births since 1928
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
7k births since 1880
#1403 (69th percentile)
overall:
7k births since 1880
#3221 (58th percentile)
The name Huey is the #3,221 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 7,018 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 58.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 58.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,403 (69.4% percentile) for all time with 7,013 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1928.
Huey has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1928 for girls). Birth data for Huey is available in 135 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (135 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 Huey has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Huey reached its peak popularity in 1935, achieving the 56.5% percentile (ranked #225) with 462 births per million. The name was most common in 1935, with 462 births per million (ranked 56.5% percentile). Despite a peak around 2010, the name has seen a recent rise in popularity for boys. Currently, Huey ranks #882 for boys (3.2% percentile) with 19 births per million, which is 4.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Huey reached its peak popularity in 1928, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #606) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1928, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1928.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Huey".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Huey. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 64.3% confident that Huey is pronounced as HUE-ee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is HYUE-ee, at 35.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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