Meaning not yet researched.
Hector: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 779 in 2025. Its best rank was #156 in 1992.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #156 in 1992; #409 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Hector in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#409 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1992, at #156.
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Hector: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 779 boys in 2025. Peak: #156 in 1992 · most boys in one year: 2,458 (2005).
In 2025, 779 US boys were named Hector, making it the 409th most common boys’ name of the year, down 30 places from #379 in 2024. That is 85 fewer than the 864 boys named Hector in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #156, reached in 1992. The most boys given the name in a single year was 2,458, in 2005. For comparison, it was #303 in 2015 and #315 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Hector in 145 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 15 babies. In all, 109,209 US babies have been given the name, 0.4% of them girls and 99.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 20,897 babies named Hector.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 9,329 US boys were named Hector; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 1,100. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,193 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Hector ranked highest in Texas in 2025, at #191 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Ector, Ettore and Heitor are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Ector (783), Ettore (414), Heitor (377), Hektor (101).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
No nicknames listed for Hector in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 16 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 200 | #191 | #132 |
| Arizona | 40 | #210 | #144 |
| California | 157 | #237 | #179 |
| Kansas | 12 | #308 | #435 |
| Nevada | 9 | #337 | #162 |
| New Mexico | 5 | #390 | #208 |
| Florida | 48 | #407 | #314 |
| Colorado | 15 | #408 | #343 |
| Connecticut | 7 | #412 | #333 |
| Maryland | 11 | #449 | #353 |
| Idaho | 5 | #454 | — |
| Tennessee | 17 | #461 | #464 |
| Georgia | 23 | #469 | #417 |
| Illinois | 22 | #476 | #294 |
| North Carolina | 21 | #489 | #381 |
| Arkansas | 6 | #509 | #506 |
| Washington | 14 | #512 | #303 |
| Oklahoma | 8 | #523 | #539 |
| Iowa | 6 | #527 | — |
| Wisconsin | 9 | #538 | — |
| Kentucky | 7 | #586 | #635 |
| Alabama | 8 | #595 | #541 |
| Virginia | 12 | #601 | #393 |
| New Jersey | 11 | #623 | #422 |
| Utah | 6 | #653 | #641 |
| Massachusetts | 7 | #653 | #420 |
| Indiana | 9 | #688 | #554 |
| Louisiana | 6 | #706 | — |
| New York | 20 | #728 | #447 |
| South Carolina | 5 | #788 | — |
| Minnesota | 5 | #855 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #875 | #424 |
| Missouri | 5 | #913 | #537 |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,033 | #1,034 |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,056 | #750 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 779 | #409 |
| 2024 | — | — | 864 | #379 |
| 2023 | — | — | 831 | #385 |
| 2022 | — | — | 927 | #355 |
| 2021 | — | — | 901 | #361 |
| 2020 | — | — | 856 | #365 |
| 2019 | — | — | 985 | #341 |
| 2018 | — | — | 1,012 | #331 |
| 2017 | — | — | 1,074 | #318 |
| 2016 | — | — | 1,100 | #319 |
| 2015 | — | — | 1,194 | #303 |
| 2014 | — | — | 1,214 | #292 |
| 2013 | — | — | 1,257 | #277 |
| 2012 | — | — | 1,325 | #267 |
| 2011 | — | — | 1,414 | #248 |
| 2010 | — | — | 1,562 | #226 |
| 2009 | — | — | 1,845 | #204 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,384 | 2,179 | #182 |
| 2007 | — | — | 2,243 | #183 |
| 2006 | — | — | 2,327 | #175 |
| 2005 | — | — | 2,458 | #167 |
| 2004 | 5 | #17,073 | 2,004 | #192 |
| 2003 | — | — | 1,998 | #189 |
| 2002 | — | — | 1,942 | #195 |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,251 | 1,905 | #193 |
| 2000 | — | — | 1,979 | #185 |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,266 | 1,915 | #183 |
| 1998 | — | — | 1,815 | #185 |
| 1997 | — | — | 1,870 | #179 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,297 | 1,966 | #172 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,706 | 1,877 | #175 |
| 1994 | 18 | #5,325 | 1,973 | #161 |
| 1993 | 18 | #5,290 | 2,032 | #158 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,793 | 2,018 | #156 |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,760 | 2,036 | #158 |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,030 | 1,991 | #156 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,143 | 1,806 | #167 |
| 1988 | 18 | #4,714 | 1,656 | #170 |
| 1987 | 19 | #4,356 | 1,592 | #172 |
| 1986 | 18 | #4,418 | 1,474 | #181 |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,157 | 1,492 | #178 |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,561 | 1,336 | #185 |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,243 | 1,369 | #184 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,321 | 1,525 | #172 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,495 | 1,410 | #177 |
| 1980 | 21 | #3,760 | 1,448 | #169 |
| 1979 | 16 | #4,484 | 1,421 | #167 |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,768 | 1,243 | #191 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,109 | 1,144 | #199 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,343 | 1,254 | #180 |
| 1975 | 14 | #4,428 | 1,245 | #182 |
| 1974 | 18 | #3,605 | 1,213 | #185 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,282 | 1,194 | #190 |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,160 | 1,115 | #204 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,695 | 1,176 | #204 |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,861 | 1,125 | #220 |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,931 | 1,127 | #215 |
| 1968 | 9 | #4,898 | 1,039 | #220 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,667 | 936 | #233 |
| 1966 | — | — | 938 | #231 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,480 | 967 | #235 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,172 | 945 | #250 |
| 1963 | 10 | #4,364 | 958 | #248 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,494 | 924 | #254 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,093 | 899 | #261 |
| 1960 | — | — | 871 | #271 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,230 | 915 | #265 |
| 1958 | — | — | 839 | #268 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,436 | 808 | #264 |
| 1956 | — | — | 801 | #256 |
| 1955 | — | — | 800 | #247 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,069 | 649 | #277 |
| 1953 | — | — | 626 | #279 |
| 1952 | — | — | 600 | #283 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,724 | 590 | #280 |
| 1950 | — | — | 473 | #315 |
| 1949 | — | — | 467 | #313 |
| 1948 | — | — | 423 | #326 |
| 1947 | — | — | 333 | #378 |
| 1946 | — | — | 300 | #376 |
| 1945 | — | — | 258 | #374 |
| 1944 | — | — | 241 | #388 |
| 1943 | — | — | 240 | #396 |
| 1942 | — | — | 193 | #445 |
| 1941 | — | — | 178 | #436 |
| 1940 | — | — | 192 | #422 |
| 1939 | — | — | 172 | #434 |
| 1938 | — | — | 183 | #421 |
| 1937 | — | — | 156 | #449 |
| 1936 | — | — | 166 | #435 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,490 | 175 | #420 |
| 1934 | — | — | 185 | #411 |
| 1933 | — | — | 198 | #387 |
| 1932 | — | — | 172 | #426 |
| 1931 | — | — | 189 | #408 |
| 1930 | — | — | 198 | #420 |
| 1929 | — | — | 192 | #426 |
| 1928 | — | — | 186 | #439 |
| 1927 | — | — | 182 | #453 |
| 1926 | — | — | 146 | #501 |
| 1925 | — | — | 138 | #523 |
| 1924 | — | — | 139 | #536 |
| 1923 | — | — | 127 | #549 |
| 1922 | — | — | 123 | #578 |
| 1921 | — | — | 129 | #551 |
| 1920 | — | — | 119 | #573 |
| 1919 | — | — | 107 | #582 |
| 1918 | — | — | 90 | #648 |
| 1917 | — | — | 85 | #646 |
| 1916 | — | — | 91 | #612 |
| 1915 | — | — | 108 | #536 |
| 1914 | — | — | 58 | #669 |
| 1913 | — | — | 51 | #622 |
| 1912 | — | — | 51 | #565 |
| 1911 | — | — | 35 | #500 |
| 1910 | — | — | 18 | #718 |
| 1909 | — | — | 18 | #643 |
| 1908 | — | — | 15 | #696 |
| 1907 | — | — | 16 | #646 |
| 1906 | — | — | 12 | #729 |
| 1905 | — | — | 12 | #723 |
| 1904 | — | — | 17 | #548 |
| 1903 | — | — | 11 | #713 |
| 1901 | — | — | 5 | #1,125 |
| 1900 | — | — | 19 | #568 |
| 1899 | — | — | 12 | #595 |
| 1898 | — | — | 10 | #717 |
| 1897 | — | — | 14 | #565 |
| 1896 | — | — | 12 | #655 |
| 1895 | — | — | 7 | #928 |
| 1894 | — | — | 8 | #816 |
| 1893 | — | — | 6 | #959 |
| 1892 | — | — | 15 | #531 |
| 1891 | — | — | 13 | #509 |
| 1890 | — | — | 6 | #937 |
| 1889 | — | — | 7 | #841 |
| 1888 | — | — | 18 | #453 |
| 1887 | — | — | 7 | #786 |
| 1886 | — | — | 6 | #898 |
| 1885 | — | — | 9 | #669 |
| 1884 | — | — | 11 | #586 |
| 1883 | — | — | 10 | #615 |
| 1882 | — | — | 6 | #884 |
| 1881 | — | — | 6 | #820 |
| 1880 | — | — | 15 | #473 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).