girls:
36 births since 1982
#5680 (1st percentile)
boys:
35.8k births since 1880
#597 (87th percentile)
overall:
35.9k births since 1880
#1322 (83rd percentile)
The name Hugo is the #1,322 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 35,871 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 82.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 82.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #597 (87.0% percentile) for all time with 35,835 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,680 (0.6% percentile) for all time with 36 births since 1982.
Hugo has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1982 for girls).
The name Hugo has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Hugo reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 60.0% percentile (ranked #370) with 427 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 427 births per million (ranked 60.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2014, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Hugo is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #384 (57.9% percentile) with 418 births per million.
For girls, Hugo reached its peak popularity in 1993, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #862) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1993, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2020.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Hugo".
These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Hugo.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Hugo", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Hugo.
Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Hugo. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 62.0% confident that Hugo is pronounced as HYUE-goh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is HUE-goh, at 24.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.
For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like HH Y UW1 G OW0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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