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Huy

Huy reached its high-water mark in 1982 at number 995, and has been recorded 1,715 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 7,679th. About 1,600 Huys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 32.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

boys named Huy

By the numbers

Total US births
1,715
Estimated living today
1,600
Median age today
32
Peak year
1982
Best rank
995th
Rank in 2025
7,679th
First recorded
1975

How old the living Huys are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,715 babies given the name since 1975, about 1,600 are alive — 96 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1993 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 Huys

People named Huy with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Huy is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Huy is most concentrated in California (6.4×), Texas (3.4×), Louisiana (2.0×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1982

The most popular boys’ names the year Huy peaked:

All the names of 1982

Huy elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
France boys Huy 70 5,628th
England and Wales boys Huy 28 2,954th

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.

Huy by city

CityYears BirthsBest rank
Berlin boys 2017–2023 5 519th

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Huy 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
Finland boys Huy 19 98

A count of people on a register – 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.

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.