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Humbert vs Humza

American parents have registered 1,328 Humzas since 1880, against 431 Humberts. Humza is still ahead, with 30 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Humbert against Humza, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Humbert Humza

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 77 years in which either name was published, Humbert for 40 years and Humza for 37 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Humbert Humza
Total US births 4311,328
Most in one year 2369
Babies in 2025 under 530
Estimated living today 501,300
Median age today 7618
Peak year 19302001
Best rank 1,533rd boys1,677th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked3,658th
First recorded 19001985
Girls / boys 0 / 4310 / 1,328

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 Humberts alive today are over 76; half the Humzas are over 18. That is 58 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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