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Huebert vs Huey

American parents have registered 7,103 Hueys since 1880, against 8 Hueberts. Huey is still ahead, with 42 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Huebert against Huey, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Huebert Huey

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

Huey has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1920, when Huebert had 8 and Huey had 48.

Side by side

  Huebert Huey
Total US births 87,103
Most in one year 8494
Babies in 2025 under 542
Estimated living today 02,900
Median age today 10563
Peak year 19201935
Best rank 3,208th boys237th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked2,941st
First recorded 19201880
Girls / boys 0 / 85 / 7,098

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 Hueys are over 63. That is 42 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: Huebert and Huey.