Boy Names Starting With H

Ranks are each name's overall position among all 2025 boy names, so the gaps between rows are real — the names in between simply start with other letters. Want a random shortlist instead? Spin H boy names in the generator, or browse the full top 100 boy names.

How common H names are

Measured by births, H is the 15th initial of 26 for boys in 2025: its 26 names inside the top 1,000 add up to 3.0% of that list's births. At the top, Henry ranks #5 among all 2025 boy names with 12,020 births; at the bottom, the 50th name, Huck, ranks #1,909 with 82.

That 3.0% is H's births inside the 2025 top 1,000 divided by the births of all 1,000 names — the convention the reading ranks and counts guide walks through — and the 26-name count is taken at that same depth, not at the 50-name depth of the table above.

H names across the decades

Between 1955 and 2015 the number of H boy names in the top 200 went from 7 to 5, with a high of 7 in 1955 and a low of 2 in 1985. Henry (#61) led the letter in 1955; Henry (#29) led it in 2015. Cut to the same top-200 depth, the 2025 list holds 6 H names, led by Henry at #5. 2 different names hold the lead across those snapshots: Henry and Hunter. 1 of the 50 names on the 2025 table appears in every one of the 7 snapshot top-200 lists: Henry.

H names held 1.5% of the top-200 births for boys in 1955 and 2.7% in 2015; at the same depth in 2025 the figure is 3.4%. The first-letter trends guide sets H's share beside the other 25 initials for every snapshot year from 1955 to 2015, for both sexes.

Faded and new

2 H boy names appear in at least one snapshot top 200 but not on the 2025 list of 50 above: Herbert (1955, 1965, best #129 in 1955) and Herman (1955, best #194 in 1955). The years in parentheses are the snapshot years whose top 200 included the name; the most recent of them to chart is Herbert, in 1965.

39 newcomers run the other way — on the 2025 list, in no snapshot's top 200: the first 12 by rank are Hayes (#162), Holden (#297), Hendrix (#354), Hugo (#378), Hank (#413), Hezekiah (#485), Hamza (#541), Harlan (#617), Hassan (#626), Houston (#675), Hugh (#732), and Huxley (#736), and the remaining 27 follow in the table above.

Both lists are bounded by the committed files — 200 ranks for each snapshot year and 50 H names for 2025, the last of them Huck at #1,909 — so "faded" means absent from this year's 50, not unregistered, and "new" means absent from a 200-deep snapshot, not absent from that year's file.

Shape of the list

3 of the 50 names on the 2025 list run to eight letters or more (Harrison, for one), 8 stop at four or fewer (Hugo, for one), and the remaining 39 sit in the five-to-seven-letter middle (Henry, for one). The longest spellings on the 2025 list, at 8 letters, are Harrison, Hezekiah, and Humberto; the shortest, at 4, are Hugo, Hank, Hugh, Halo, Hans, Hadi, Haze, and Huck.

2 of the 50 names rank inside the 2025 top 100 (1 inside the top 10), 11 fall at ranks 101–500, 13 at 501–1,000, and 24 sit past #1,000, outside the top-1,000 list the generator's 2025 era draws from.

The 2025 girls' H list shares 9 spellings with this one — ranked separately for each sex — namely Hunter (#130 for boys, #842 for girls), Hayden (#161 for boys, #437 for girls), Hollis (#894 for boys, #1,132 for girls), Halo (#931 for boys, #613 for girls), Harlem (#971 for boys, #1,462 for girls), Harley (#1,083 for boys, #418 for girls), Harlow (#1,214 for boys, #309 for girls), Haven (#1,354 for boys, #190 for girls), and Holland (#1,367 for boys, #550 for girls). After the H, the most common second letter on the 2025 list is a: 27 of the 50 names begin Ha-, followed by Hu- (9); the list uses 5 different second letters in all.

H boy names: questions answered from the data

Other letters

Girl names for this letter: girl names starting with H.

Source: every name, rank, and count on this page comes from the U.S. Social Security Administration's national baby-names dataset (2025 data, from Social Security card applications). It is public-domain U.S. government data; names given fewer than 5 times in a year are excluded by the SSA, spelling variants are counted separately, and the data covers U.S. births only. Full caveats on the methodology page.