Meaning not yet researched.
Hoover: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 0 in 2025. Its best rank was #363 in 1928.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Fewer than five US boys were given it in 2025. It peaked at #363 in 1928. No US babies were recorded with the name Hoover in 2025.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
Given to fewer than five US boys in 2025; it peaked at #363 in 1928.
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Hoover: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 0 boys in 2025. Peak: #363 in 1928 · most boys in one year: 256 (1928).
Fewer than five US boys were named Hoover in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for boys. Its best rank for boys was #363, reached in 1928. That year also had the most boys given the name: 256. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and #2,661 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Hoover in 48 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1913 with 5 babies. In all, 1,127 US babies have been given the name, 0.6% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 585 babies named Hoover.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 6 US boys were named Hoover; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 6.
Rarer spellings such as Hover 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: Hover (7).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Hoover in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | — | — | 6 | #11,385 |
| 1988 | — | — | 8 | #5,400 |
| 1987 | — | — | 6 | #6,414 |
| 1982 | — | — | 5 | #6,739 |
| 1970 | — | — | 5 | #5,026 |
| 1968 | — | — | 8 | #3,218 |
| 1965 | — | — | 5 | #4,147 |
| 1964 | — | — | 5 | #4,290 |
| 1963 | — | — | 5 | #4,295 |
| 1962 | — | — | 5 | #4,299 |
| 1961 | — | — | 7 | #3,493 |
| 1960 | — | — | 9 | #2,959 |
| 1959 | — | — | 13 | #2,344 |
| 1958 | — | — | 17 | #1,981 |
| 1957 | — | — | 11 | #2,546 |
| 1956 | — | — | 15 | #2,131 |
| 1955 | — | — | 19 | #1,816 |
| 1954 | — | — | 12 | #2,366 |
| 1953 | — | — | 10 | #2,609 |
| 1952 | — | — | 6 | #3,532 |
| 1951 | — | — | 11 | #2,429 |
| 1950 | — | — | 9 | #2,661 |
| 1949 | — | — | 8 | #2,884 |
| 1942 | — | — | 5 | #3,797 |
| 1941 | — | — | 5 | #3,742 |
| 1940 | — | — | 6 | #3,278 |
| 1937 | — | — | 8 | #2,773 |
| 1936 | — | — | 9 | #2,525 |
| 1935 | — | — | 12 | #2,183 |
| 1934 | — | — | 12 | #2,179 |
| 1933 | — | — | 24 | #1,381 |
| 1932 | — | — | 64 | #794 |
| 1931 | — | — | 49 | #928 |
| 1930 | — | — | 92 | #640 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,837 | 205 | #409 |
| 1928 | — | — | 256 | #363 |
| 1927 | — | — | 40 | #1,137 |
| 1926 | — | — | 19 | #1,818 |
| 1925 | — | — | 9 | #3,021 |
| 1924 | — | — | 8 | #3,364 |
| 1923 | — | — | 14 | #2,273 |
| 1922 | — | — | 7 | #3,683 |
| 1921 | — | — | 8 | #3,337 |
| 1920 | — | — | 12 | #2,524 |
| 1919 | — | — | 9 | #2,984 |
| 1918 | — | — | 21 | #1,678 |
| 1917 | — | — | 16 | #1,937 |
| 1913 | — | — | 5 | #3,027 |
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).