boys:
1.7k births since 1975
#3007 (34th percentile)
overall:
1.7k births since 1975
#6054 (22nd percentile)
The name Huy is the #6,054 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,696 recorded births since 1975. This represents the 21.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 21.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,007 (34.4% percentile) for all time with 1,696 births since 1975.
Huy first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1975 (first recorded for boys in 1975).
For boys, Huy reached its peak popularity in 1982, achieving the 11.2% percentile (ranked #614) with 43 births per million. The name was most common in 1982, with 43 births per million (ranked 11.2% percentile). Despite a low point around 2020, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for boys. Currently, Huy ranks #907 for boys (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 11.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Huy".
These names exclude other spelling variations of Huey. View all variations of Huey.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Huy", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 7 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Huey" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Huey..
Our model found one way to pronounce the name Huy. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Huy is pronounced as HUE-ee, which has 2 syllables.
If none of the pronunciations above sound right to you, could you please check whether any of these related pronunciations should be applied to the name Huy? These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Huy. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Huy, please vote using the thumbs up button.
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 UW1 IY0) 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.
© 2025 NamePlay.org
Made with ❤️ by Aaron J Becker