Meaning not yet researched.
Huy: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 10 in 2025. Its best rank was #999 in 1982.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #999 in 1982; #7,874 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Huy in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,874 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1982, at #999.
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Huy: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 10 boys in 2025. Peak: #999 in 1982 · most boys in one year: 82 (1982).
In 2025, 10 US boys were named Huy, making it the 7,874th most common boys’ name of the year, up 1,456 places from #9,330 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 8 boys named Huy in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #999, reached in 1982. That year also had the most boys given the name: 82. For comparison, it was #4,608 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Huy in 51 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1975 with 13 babies. In all, 1,715 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 622 babies named Huy.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 108 US boys were named Huy; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 15. In 2025 that was about 1 in 170,808 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Hugh (84,179 babies since 1880) and Huey (7,103 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Hoa, Houa and Ho 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Hoa (532), Houa (260), Ho (129), Hoye (54).
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 Huy 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 | — | — | 10 | #7,874 |
| 2024 | — | — | 8 | #9,330 |
| 2023 | — | — | 9 | #8,498 |
| 2022 | — | — | 12 | #6,974 |
| 2021 | — | — | 9 | #8,426 |
| 2020 | — | — | 11 | #7,201 |
| 2019 | — | — | 15 | #5,925 |
| 2018 | — | — | 13 | #6,495 |
| 2017 | — | — | 14 | #6,147 |
| 2016 | — | — | 7 | #10,061 |
| 2015 | — | — | 21 | #4,608 |
| 2014 | — | — | 23 | #4,309 |
| 2013 | — | — | 18 | #5,047 |
| 2012 | — | — | 18 | #5,113 |
| 2011 | — | — | 27 | #3,831 |
| 2010 | — | — | 20 | #4,741 |
| 2009 | — | — | 30 | #3,590 |
| 2008 | — | — | 25 | #4,074 |
| 2007 | — | — | 20 | #4,701 |
| 2006 | — | — | 36 | #3,049 |
| 2005 | — | — | 39 | #2,769 |
| 2004 | — | — | 25 | #3,680 |
| 2003 | — | — | 33 | #2,955 |
| 2002 | — | — | 42 | #2,411 |
| 2001 | — | — | 33 | #2,833 |
| 2000 | — | — | 26 | #3,241 |
| 1999 | — | — | 42 | #2,213 |
| 1998 | — | — | 37 | #2,365 |
| 1997 | — | — | 49 | #1,900 |
| 1996 | — | — | 42 | #2,058 |
| 1995 | — | — | 43 | #1,965 |
| 1994 | — | — | 45 | #1,873 |
| 1993 | — | — | 48 | #1,775 |
| 1992 | — | — | 53 | #1,648 |
| 1991 | — | — | 54 | #1,579 |
| 1990 | — | — | 49 | #1,671 |
| 1989 | — | — | 57 | #1,465 |
| 1988 | — | — | 43 | #1,654 |
| 1987 | — | — | 56 | #1,324 |
| 1986 | — | — | 55 | #1,329 |
| 1985 | — | — | 62 | #1,196 |
| 1984 | — | — | 66 | #1,118 |
| 1983 | — | — | 78 | #1,003 |
| 1982 | — | — | 82 | #999 |
| 1981 | — | — | 73 | #1,068 |
| 1980 | — | — | 50 | #1,331 |
| 1979 | — | — | 23 | #2,190 |
| 1978 | — | — | 24 | #2,032 |
| 1977 | — | — | 16 | #2,709 |
| 1976 | — | — | 11 | #3,360 |
| 1975 | — | — | 13 | #2,976 |
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).