Hugh Boy Name

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The name Hugh is of Germanic origin, and means mind or spirit. The table below indicates the number of times the name Hugh 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 Hugh**
Use of the Name Hugh for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
78,293	19,561	4,786	1,877	924	375	181

The table below indicates the number of times the name Hugh 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 Hugh**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	71	224
1881	70	220
1882	73	239
1883	74	215
1884	73	246
1885	73	257
1886	77	227
1887	69	250
1888	79	253
1889	78	225
1890	80	219
1891	73	233
1892	77	265
1893	78	241
1894	75	269
1895	80	243
1896	75	263
1897	86	212
1898	84	250
1899	88	209
1900	88	290
1901	91	192
1902	93	217
1903	101	193
1904	105	202
1905	107	200
1906	110	195
1907	113	212
1908	121	215
1909	104	260
1910	111	279
1911	120	306
1912	117	644
1913	115	754
1914	116	967
1915	111	1,317
1916	97	1,618
1917	110	1,406
1918	113	1,484
1919	114	1,421
1920	115	1,490
1921	120	1,482
1922	120	1,443
1923	123	1,420
1924	116	1,533
1925	127	1,383
1926	128	1,392
1927	132	1,353
1928	129	1,371
1929	139	1,229
1930	131	1,341
1931	131	1,326
1932	131	1,313
1933	141	1,117
1934	135	1,186
1935	139	1,141
1936	142	1,072
1937	144	1,070
1938	146	1,120
1939	160	999
1940	157	1,056
1941	160	1,079
1942	155	1,257
1943	160	1,202
1944	165	1,061
1945	170	965
1946	174	1,076
1947	176	1,197
1948	191	1,035
1949	197	1,042
1950	207	955
1951	203	1,016
1952	209	984
1953	219	951
1954	228	943
1955	236	896
1956	238	951
1957	245	972
1958	243	1,028
1959	255	978
1960	264	904
1961	270	867
1962	270	812
1963	272	795
1964	291	722
1965	292	657
1966	311	566
1967	336	502
1968	346	499
1969	366	459
1970	368	487
1971	387	431
1972	393	400
1973	453	299
1974	468	293
1975	477	281
1976	516	242
1977	505	261
1978	535	239
1979	560	234
1980	572	228
1981	590	209
1982	567	227
1983	605	199
1984	605	198
1985	585	224
1986	648	189
1987	647	199
1988	685	186
1989	688	210
1990	736	193
1991	772	176
1992	830	161
1993	902	142
1994	815	168
1995	805	177
1996	769	192
1997	743	203
1998	773	203
1999	850	178
2000	905	171
2001	857	187
2002	862	191
2003	877	194
2004	918	181
Totals:		78,293		0

During the last 125 years, parents have used Hugh as a boy's name nearly 100% of the time and hardly ever as a girl's name.

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