boys:
874 births since 1896
#3713 (19th percentile)
overall:
874 births since 1896
#6865 (11th percentile)
The name Hughes is the #6,865 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 874 recorded births since 1896. This represents the 11.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 11.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,713 (19.0% percentile) for all time with 874 births since 1896.
Hughes first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1896 (first recorded for boys in 1896). Birth data for Hughes is available in 79 out of the 128 years between 1896 and 2023. 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.
For boys, Hughes reached its peak popularity in 1916, achieving the 11.2% percentile (ranked #446) with 66 births per million. The name was most common in 1916, with 66 births per million (ranked 11.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Hughes ranks #901 for boys (1.1% percentile) with 8 births per million, which is 12.4% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Hughes".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Hughes. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 74.0% confident that Hughes is pronounced as hyuez, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is yuez, at 18.0% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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