Meaning not yet researched.
Hoyt: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 44 in 2025. Its best rank was #429 in 1909.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #429 in 1909; #2,854 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Hoyt in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,854 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1909, at #429.
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Hoyt: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 44 boys in 2025. Peak: #429 in 1909 · most boys in one year: 171 (1924).
In 2025, 44 US boys were named Hoyt, making it the 2,854th most common boys’ name of the year, down 367 places from #2,487 in 2024. That is 11 fewer than the 55 boys named Hoyt in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #429, reached in 1909. The most boys given the name in a single year was 171, in 1924. For comparison, it was #1,390 in 2015 and #810 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Hoyt in 144 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 5 babies. In all, 8,572 US babies have been given the name, 0.1% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 1,563 babies named Hoyt.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 790 US boys were named Hoyt; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 107. In 2025 that was about 1 in 38,820 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Hoyte, Hoyet and Hoyett 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: Hoyte (262), Hoyet (38), Hoyett (15), Hoytt (6).
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 Hoyt 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 44 | #2,854 |
| 2024 | — | — | 55 | #2,487 |
| 2023 | — | — | 64 | #2,233 |
| 2022 | — | — | 86 | #1,858 |
| 2021 | — | — | 82 | #1,875 |
| 2020 | — | — | 73 | #1,970 |
| 2019 | — | — | 86 | #1,797 |
| 2018 | — | — | 93 | #1,691 |
| 2017 | — | — | 100 | #1,606 |
| 2016 | — | — | 107 | #1,548 |
| 2015 | — | — | 124 | #1,390 |
| 2014 | — | — | 94 | #1,646 |
| 2013 | — | — | 101 | #1,559 |
| 2012 | — | — | 95 | #1,629 |
| 2011 | — | — | 81 | #1,787 |
| 2010 | — | — | 78 | #1,859 |
| 2009 | — | — | 54 | #2,389 |
| 2008 | — | — | 51 | #2,486 |
| 2007 | — | — | 45 | #2,700 |
| 2006 | — | — | 37 | #2,997 |
| 2005 | — | — | 32 | #3,190 |
| 2004 | — | — | 26 | #3,569 |
| 2003 | — | — | 15 | #5,131 |
| 2002 | — | — | 15 | #4,997 |
| 2001 | — | — | 19 | #4,187 |
| 2000 | — | — | 11 | #6,063 |
| 1999 | — | — | 16 | #4,434 |
| 1998 | — | — | 14 | #4,739 |
| 1997 | — | — | 19 | #3,654 |
| 1996 | — | — | 8 | #6,730 |
| 1995 | — | — | 11 | #5,285 |
| 1994 | — | — | 13 | #4,625 |
| 1993 | — | — | 9 | #5,936 |
| 1992 | — | — | 11 | #5,014 |
| 1991 | — | — | 15 | #3,890 |
| 1990 | — | — | 13 | #4,260 |
| 1989 | — | — | 10 | #4,963 |
| 1988 | — | — | 15 | #3,419 |
| 1987 | — | — | 27 | #2,186 |
| 1986 | — | — | 9 | #4,617 |
| 1985 | — | — | 30 | #1,935 |
| 1984 | — | — | 9 | #4,344 |
| 1983 | — | — | 20 | #2,445 |
| 1982 | — | — | 13 | #3,376 |
| 1981 | — | — | 19 | #2,527 |
| 1980 | — | — | 16 | #2,878 |
| 1979 | — | — | 22 | #2,268 |
| 1978 | — | — | 12 | #3,286 |
| 1977 | — | — | 25 | #1,965 |
| 1976 | — | — | 24 | #2,021 |
| 1975 | — | — | 27 | #1,809 |
| 1974 | — | — | 29 | #1,673 |
| 1973 | — | — | 27 | #1,715 |
| 1972 | — | — | 32 | #1,521 |
| 1971 | — | — | 31 | #1,574 |
| 1970 | — | — | 38 | #1,358 |
| 1969 | — | — | 49 | #1,116 |
| 1968 | — | — | 47 | #1,092 |
| 1967 | — | — | 58 | #950 |
| 1966 | — | — | 63 | #921 |
| 1965 | — | — | 69 | #884 |
| 1964 | — | — | 50 | #1,076 |
| 1963 | — | — | 49 | #1,097 |
| 1962 | — | — | 61 | #977 |
| 1961 | — | — | 60 | #1,008 |
| 1960 | — | — | 51 | #1,088 |
| 1959 | — | — | 68 | #933 |
| 1958 | — | — | 48 | #1,107 |
| 1957 | — | — | 70 | #912 |
| 1956 | — | — | 57 | #995 |
| 1955 | — | — | 81 | #815 |
| 1954 | — | — | 85 | #776 |
| 1953 | — | — | 79 | #809 |
| 1952 | — | — | 70 | #838 |
| 1951 | — | — | 89 | #738 |
| 1950 | — | — | 71 | #810 |
| 1949 | — | — | 83 | #757 |
| 1948 | — | — | 93 | #695 |
| 1947 | — | — | 89 | #730 |
| 1946 | — | — | 100 | #645 |
| 1945 | — | — | 77 | #693 |
| 1944 | — | — | 98 | #621 |
| 1943 | — | — | 94 | #663 |
| 1942 | — | — | 111 | #595 |
| 1941 | — | — | 96 | #617 |
| 1940 | — | — | 88 | #637 |
| 1939 | — | — | 102 | #567 |
| 1938 | — | — | 123 | #523 |
| 1937 | — | — | 109 | #557 |
| 1936 | — | — | 115 | #535 |
| 1935 | — | — | 125 | #514 |
| 1934 | — | — | 115 | #551 |
| 1933 | — | — | 124 | #504 |
| 1932 | — | — | 144 | #479 |
| 1931 | — | — | 132 | #499 |
| 1930 | — | — | 162 | #466 |
| 1929 | — | — | 147 | #485 |
| 1928 | — | — | 141 | #509 |
| 1927 | — | — | 145 | #502 |
| 1926 | — | — | 154 | #485 |
| 1925 | — | — | 140 | #518 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,421 | 171 | #474 |
| 1923 | — | — | 167 | #471 |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,347 | 171 | #471 |
| 1921 | — | — | 153 | #498 |
| 1920 | — | — | 164 | #476 |
| 1919 | — | — | 153 | #483 |
| 1918 | — | — | 161 | #466 |
| 1917 | — | — | 141 | #484 |
| 1916 | — | — | 123 | #512 |
| 1915 | — | — | 117 | #516 |
| 1914 | — | — | 90 | #517 |
| 1913 | — | — | 79 | #488 |
| 1912 | — | — | 49 | #574 |
| 1911 | — | — | 37 | #485 |
| 1910 | — | — | 26 | #561 |
| 1909 | — | — | 34 | #429 |
| 1908 | — | — | 25 | #505 |
| 1907 | — | — | 24 | #481 |
| 1906 | — | — | 19 | #531 |
| 1905 | — | — | 13 | #685 |
| 1904 | — | — | 14 | #629 |
| 1903 | — | — | 12 | #674 |
| 1902 | — | — | 12 | #669 |
| 1901 | — | — | 19 | #443 |
| 1900 | — | — | 11 | #812 |
| 1899 | — | — | 10 | #679 |
| 1898 | — | — | 13 | #619 |
| 1897 | — | — | 9 | #755 |
| 1896 | — | — | 11 | #698 |
| 1895 | — | — | 12 | #624 |
| 1894 | — | — | 7 | #909 |
| 1893 | — | — | 6 | #963 |
| 1892 | — | — | 15 | #532 |
| 1891 | — | — | 13 | #510 |
| 1890 | — | — | 14 | #521 |
| 1889 | — | — | 5 | #1,035 |
| 1887 | — | — | 10 | #609 |
| 1886 | — | — | 7 | #802 |
| 1885 | — | — | 6 | #878 |
| 1884 | — | — | 8 | #724 |
| 1883 | — | — | 6 | #839 |
| 1882 | — | — | 6 | #890 |
| 1880 | — | — | 5 | #979 |
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).