Hiawatha
About 1,228 American babies have been named Hiawatha since 1911, most of them around 1934. It is given to both boys and girls. It has not appeared in the national data since 2004. About 490 Hiawathas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 66.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Hiawatha boys named Hiawatha
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,228
- Estimated living today
- 490
- Median age today
- 66
- Peak year
- 1934
- Best rank
- 1,323rd
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1911
- Girls / boys
- 303 / 925
How old the living Hiawathas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,228 babies given the name since 1911, about 490 are alive — 40 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1959 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where Hiawatha is most common
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1934
The most popular boys’ names the year Hiawatha peaked:
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.