Hector Boy Name

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The name Hector is of Greek origin, and means holding fast. The table below indicates the number of times the name Hector has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Hector**
Use of the Name Hector for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
80,130	70,107	44,276	19,205	9,776	3,967	1,979

The table below indicates the number of times the name Hector has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Hector**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	473	15
1881	820	6
1882	885	6
1883	615	10
1884	586	11
1885	669	9
1886	898	6
1887	786	7
1888	453	18
1889	842	7
1890	937	6
1891	509	13
1892	530	15
1893	960	6
1894	758	9
1895	929	7
1896	655	12
1897	566	14
1898	717	10
1899	595	12
1900	569	19
1901
1902
1903	714	11
1904	548	17
1905	723	12
1906	729	12
1907	647	16
1908	694	15
1909	642	18
1910	718	18
1911	499	35
1912	565	51
1913	622	51
1914	674	57
1915	539	107
1916	611	92
1917	643	86
1918	655	89
1919	590	105
1920	557	123
1921	548	130
1922	582	122
1923	558	125
1924	536	139
1925	519	139
1926	504	144
1927	450	184
1928	439	186
1929	425	193
1930	420	196
1931	409	189
1932	425	174
1933	390	196
1934	406	185
1935	417	176
1936	437	165
1937	453	154
1938	419	185
1939	433	172
1940	422	191
1941	441	176
1942	444	196
1943	395	238
1944	386	243
1945	376	251
1946	373	302
1947	378	331
1948	325	426
1949	314	460
1950	314	474
1951	279	587
1952	286	589
1953	279	628
1954	277	644
1955	249	790
1956	256	796
1957	265	805
1958	268	844
1959	265	912
1960	269	877
1961	265	886
1962	254	920
1963	248	965
1964	250	938
1965	234	970
1966	231	933
1967	233	933
1968	220	1,035
1969	215	1,126
1970	220	1,122
1971	204	1,170
1972	204	1,117
1973	191	1,190
1974	185	1,211
1975	182	1,243
1976	182	1,251
1977	200	1,140
1978	191	1,239
1979	167	1,418
1980	169	1,447
1981	179	1,404
1982	172	1,519
1983	184	1,365
1984	188	1,325
1985	178	1,493
1986	182	1,464
1987	172	1,590
1988	170	1,646
1989	167	1,795
1990	156	1,976
1991	158	2,037
1992	156	2,016
1993	159	2,023
1994	161	1,971
1995	175	1,875
1996	173	1,961
1997	179	1,870
1998	185	1,812
1999	183	1,911
2000	185	1,977
2001	193	1,902
2002	194	1,930
2003	189	1,988
2004	191	1,979
Totals:		80,130		0

During the last 125 years, parents have used Hector as a boy's name nearly 100% of the time and hardly ever as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are slightly lower than actual counts because the name Hector appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 123 times during the last 125 years.

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