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Hue vs Huebert

American parents have registered 565 Hues since 1880, against 8 Hueberts. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Hue against Huebert, 1880 to 2025 0 5 10 15 20 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Hue Huebert

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 63 years in which either name was published, Hue for 62 years and Huebert for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Hue Huebert
Total US births 5658
Most in one year 198
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 3400
Median age today 38105
Peak year 19311920
Best rank 2,003rd boys3,208th boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19131920
Girls / boys 89 / 4760 / 8

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Hueberts alive today are over 105; half the Hues are over 38. That is 67 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Hue and Huebert.