Meaning not yet researched.
Huxley: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 357 in 2025. Its best rank was #538 in 2020.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #538 in 2020; #736 in 2025. About 91% of babies named Huxley in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#736 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2020, at #538.
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Huxley: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 357 boys in 2025. Peak: #538 in 2020 · most boys in one year: 526 (2020).
In 2025, 357 US boys were named Huxley, making it the 736th most common boys’ name of the year, up 7 places from #743 in 2024. That is 11 more than the 346 boys named Huxley in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #538, reached in 2020. That year also had the most boys given the name: 526. For comparison, it was #960 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Huxley in 23 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2002 with 7 babies. In all, 5,230 US babies have been given the name, 9.5% of them girls and 91% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 2,883 babies named Huxley.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,015 US boys were named Huxley; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 526. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,785 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Huxley ranked highest in South Dakota in 2025, at #119 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Huxlee, Huxly and Huxlie are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Huxlee (411), Huxly (13), Huxlie (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 Huxley 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 21 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Dakota | 11 | #119 | — |
| North Dakota | 5 | #236 | — |
| Wisconsin | 24 | #250 | #463 |
| Nebraska | 7 | #351 | #402 |
| Kansas | 10 | #366 | #536 |
| Arkansas | 8 | #409 | #454 |
| Minnesota | 13 | #432 | #558 |
| Colorado | 13 | #446 | #730 |
| Missouri | 13 | #469 | #628 |
| Oklahoma | 8 | #525 | — |
| Ohio | 19 | #547 | #1,025 |
| Michigan | 15 | #551 | — |
| Tennessee | 13 | #565 | — |
| South Carolina | 8 | #573 | — |
| Iowa | 5 | #614 | #304 |
| Kentucky | 6 | #654 | — |
| Oregon | 5 | #657 | #470 |
| Utah | 6 | #657 | — |
| North Carolina | 13 | #698 | #1,041 |
| Louisiana | 6 | #707 | — |
| Georgia | 13 | #730 | #1,278 |
| Indiana | 8 | #734 | — |
| Washington | 8 | #755 | #656 |
| Arizona | 7 | #805 | — |
| Texas | 30 | #861 | #1,318 |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #949 | — |
| New York | 13 | #964 | #1,403 |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,188 | #861 |
| Florida | 10 | #1,221 | #1,787 |
| California | 14 | #1,326 | #941 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36 | #4,017 | 357 | #736 |
| 2024 | 31 | #4,512 | 346 | #743 |
| 2023 | 48 | #3,348 | 453 | #620 |
| 2022 | 47 | #3,387 | 457 | #611 |
| 2021 | 60 | #2,834 | 476 | #586 |
| 2020 | 46 | #3,356 | 526 | #538 |
| 2019 | 58 | #2,870 | 471 | #588 |
| 2018 | 48 | #3,312 | 379 | #668 |
| 2017 | 32 | #4,429 | 291 | #792 |
| 2016 | 26 | #5,191 | 259 | #867 |
| 2015 | 21 | #6,116 | 215 | #960 |
| 2014 | 18 | #6,821 | 126 | #1,357 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,297 | 82 | #1,771 |
| 2012 | 6 | #15,695 | 88 | #1,718 |
| 2011 | 5 | #17,797 | 63 | #2,112 |
| 2010 | — | — | 42 | #2,842 |
| 2009 | — | — | 28 | #3,762 |
| 2008 | — | — | 28 | #3,771 |
| 2007 | — | — | 15 | #5,757 |
| 2006 | — | — | 8 | #9,027 |
| 2005 | — | — | 12 | #6,370 |
| 2004 | — | — | 5 | #12,027 |
| 2002 | — | — | 7 | #8,807 |
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).