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Hutch vs Hutson

American parents have registered 721 Hutsons since 1880, against 558 Hutches. Hutson is still ahead, with 45 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Hutch against Hutson, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Hutch Hutson

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 36 years in which either name was published, Hutson for 28 years and Hutch for 8 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Hutch Hutson
Total US births 558721
Most in one year 4060
Babies in 2025 3545
Estimated living today 550700
Median age today 89
Peak year 20242015
Best rank 3,045th boys2,234th boys
Rank in 2025 3,314th2,798th
First recorded 19751917
Girls / boys 0 / 5580 / 721

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.

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: Hutch and Hutson.