Howie
Howie reached its high-water mark in 1957 at number 1,364, and has been recorded 788 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 4,707th. About 670 Howies are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 34.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Howie
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 788
- Estimated living today
- 670
- Median age today
- 34
- Peak year
- 1957
- Best rank
- 1,364th
- Rank in 2025
- 4,707th
- First recorded
- 1943
How old the living Howies are
born that year still alive today
Of the 788 babies given the name since 1943, about 670 are alive — 85 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1991 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.
Notable Howies
- Howie Dorough (born 1973)American singer
- Howie Mandel (born 1955)Canadian comedian, television personality, screenwriter, actor, voice actor, producer, director, entrepreneur, game show host, author and podcaster
- Howie Morenz (1902–1937)Canadian ice hockey player
- Howie Hawkins (born 1952)American activist and trade unionist from California
- Howie Williams (1927–2004)basketball player
- Howie Long (born 1960)American football defensive end, actor, and sports analyst
- Howie Day (born 1981)American musician
- Howie Dallmar (1922–1991)American basketball player and coach
People named Howie with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Howie is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Howie is most concentrated in New York (9.1×), California (2.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1957
The most popular boys’ names the year Howie peaked:
Howie elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Howie | 181 | 1,799th |
| Scotland boys | Howie | 29 | 467th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Howie against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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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.