Hugo
Hugo is a boy's name that peaked in 2025, when it was the 377th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 377th. About 31,000 Hugos are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 21.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Hugo boys named Hugo
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 37,518
- Estimated living today
- 31,000
- Median age today
- 21
- Peak year
- 2025
- Best rank
- 377th
- Rank in 2025
- 377th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 36 / 37,482
How old the living Hugos are
born that year still alive today
Of the 37,518 babies given the name since 1880, about 31,000 are alive — 84 in every hundred. Roughly 13,000 of them are children and 970 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2004 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 the name comes from
Origin Germanic languages
From Old French Hugo, of Germanic origin, from Frankish *hugi (“thought, mind, spirit”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Hugos
- Hugo Chávez (1954–2013)Venezuelan politician, 56th president of Venezuela
- Hugo Grotius (1583–1645)Dutch jurist and scholar
- Hugo Lloris (born 1986)French footballer
- Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874–1929)Austrian novelist, librettist, poet, dramatist
- Hugo de Vries (1848–1935)Dutch botanist
- Hugo Theorell (1903–1982)biochemist
- Hugo Sánchez (born 1958)Mexican footballer and manager
- Hugo Almeida (born 1984)Portuguese footballer and manager
People named Hugo with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Hugo is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Hugo is most concentrated in California (3.3×), Texas (2.6×), Nevada (2.4×), Arizona (1.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2025
The most popular boys’ names the year Hugo peaked:
Hugo elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Hugo | 156,460 | 4th |
| Spain boys | Hugo | 92,191 | 1st |
| England and Wales boys | Hugo | 19,873 | 48th |
| Sweden boys | Hugo | 18,404 | 6th |
| Belgium boys | Hugo | 9,083 | 6th |
| Denmark boys | Hugo | 2,358 | 13th |
| Poland boys | Hugo | 2,194 birth registrations | 112th |
| Switzerland boys | Hugo | 1,996 | 90th |
| Norway boys | Hugo | 1,845 | 101st |
| Ireland boys | Hugo | 1,687 | 52nd |
| New Zealand boys | Hugo | 1,244 | 26th |
| Scotland boys | Hugo | 731 | 116th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Hugo | 300 | 48th |
| France girls | Hugo | 25 | 3,502nd |
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.
Hugo: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Hugo | 379 | 0.030% | 231st |
| French boys | Switzerland | Hugo | 1,612 | 0.370% | 10th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Hugo | 5 | 0.008% | 123rd |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Hugo is most concentrated in Jura, where 0.58% of children were given it – 85 of them.
Hugo: rank by region
In 2025, Hugo was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium. It has come first somewhere in 3 different years.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Hugo | 136 | 43 |
| Wallonia | Hugo | 15 | 125 |
| Brussels | Hugo | 48 | 19 |
In 2024, Hugo was among the 10 most common names in 15 regions of Spain. It has come first somewhere in 16 different years.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Andalucía | Hugo | 3 | 658 |
| Aragón | Hugo | 4 | 78 |
| Principado de Asturias | Hugo | 5 | 46 |
| Illes Balears | Hugo | 4 | 61 |
| Canarias | Hugo | 5 | 90 |
| Cantabria | Hugo | 7 | 27 |
| Castilla y León | Hugo | 3 | 146 |
| Castilla - La Mancha | Hugo | 2 | 171 |
| Comunitat Valenciana | Hugo | 5 | 294 |
| Extremadura | Hugo | 2 | 91 |
| Galicia | Hugo | 4 | 150 |
| Comunidad de Madrid | Hugo | 6 | 410 |
| Región de Murcia | Hugo | 2 | 130 |
| La Rioja | Hugo | 4 | 16 |
| Ceuta | Hugo | 6 | 5 |
In 2025, Hugo was given 2 times or more in 15 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dolnośląskie | Hugo | 124 | 10 |
| Kujawsko-Pomorskie | Hugo | 141 | 3 |
| Lubelskie | Hugo | 97 | 5 |
| Łódzkie | Hugo | 103 | 9 |
| Małopolskie | Hugo | 113 | 13 |
| Mazowieckie | Hugo | 113 | 22 |
| Opolskie | Hugo | 108 | 3 |
| Podkarpackie | Hugo | 104 | 7 |
| Podlaskie | Hugo | 127 | 2 |
| Pomorskie | Hugo | 118 | 9 |
| Śląskie | Hugo | 118 | 12 |
| Świętokrzyskie | Hugo | 100 | 2 |
| Warmińsko-Mazurskie | Hugo | 103 | 4 |
| Wielkopolskie | Hugo | 103 | 17 |
| Zachodniopomorskie | Hugo | 110 | 6 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Hugo appears in the lists for Province of Liège (9th), Province of Hainaut (11th), Province of Luxembourg (16th), Province of Walloon Brabant (24th), Province of Namur (25th), Province of Flemish Brabant (31st), Brussels-Capital Region (48th), Province of Antwerp (204th) and Province of East Flanders (226th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Spain after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Hugo by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 243 | 79th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Hugo among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Hugo | 10,574 | 15,819 |
| Finland boys | Hugo | 4,403 | 6,359 |
| the Netherlands girls | Hugo | — | 76 |
| Finland girls | Hugo | 6 | 8 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Hugo lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 102,296 men called Hugo were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pontevedra | Hugo | 3,093 | 6.763 | 36 |
| Coruña, A | Hugo | 3,248 | 5.964 | 40 |
| Salamanca | Hugo | 938 | 5.895 | 40 |
| Asturias | Hugo | 2,847 | 5.876 | 38 |
| Cádiz | Hugo | 3,608 | 5.814 | 38 |
| Valladolid | Hugo | 1,478 | 5.742 | 45 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Hugo against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.