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Hutch vs Hutton

American parents have registered 744 Huttons since 1880, against 558 Hutches. Hutton is still ahead, with 79 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Hutch Hutton

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 38 years in which either name was published, Hutton for 25 years and Hutch for 13 years. The lead changed hands 11 times.

Side by side

  Hutch Hutton
Total US births 558744
Most in one year 4079
Babies in 2025 3579
Estimated living today 550740
Median age today 86
Peak year 20242025
Best rank 3,045th boys2,167th boys
Rank in 2025 3,314th2,167th
First recorded 19751987
Girls / boys 0 / 55859 / 685

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 Hutches alive today are over 8; half the Huttons are over 6. That is 2 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: Hutch and Hutton.