Girl Names Starting With H

Ranks are overall positions among all 2025 girl names, so gaps between rows are real. For a random shortlist, spin H girl names in the generator, or scan the full top 100 girl names.

How common is H as a first letter for girls in 2025?

Count births rather than names and H lands 10th of the 26 initials for girls in 2025: 3.4% of the top-1,000 total, spread over 30 names. Tier by tier, the 2025 overall top 100 claims 3 of the table's 50 names, the 101–500 band claims 15, the 501–1,000 band claims 12, and 20 rank past #1,000, outside the committed top-1,000 file. The table's last row, Huda, still carries 117 births at #1,739; any H girl names below it are outside the committed per-letter depth of 50 and are not shown.

The 2025 H table runs from Harper at #16 to Huda at #1,739, and Harper's 6,792 births are 58.1 times Huda's 117; all 50 rows together sum to 43,431 births. The middle row, the 25th, is Hana at #658 with 436 births in 2025. The widest jump between consecutive rows is 184 ranks, from Hana (#658) to Hunter (#842); every 2025 girl name at the ranks between them begins with another letter. 2 rows carry exactly the count of the row above them, ordered by the SSA's alphabetical tie rule; the first such pair is Harmoni (#1,000) and Henley (#1,001), at 252 births each. H's top-100 names for 2025 are Harper (#16), Hazel (#21) and Hannah (#56), 3 of the table's 50.

How a rank like #16 is assigned, including the SSA's alphabetical tie-break between equal counts, is explained in Reading ranks and counts.

H girl names across the decade snapshots

Every snapshot year from 1955 to 2015 has at least one H girl name in its top 200; the count was 2 in 1955 and 7 in 2015. The most H names in a single snapshot was 7 in 1995, led by Hannah at #7 with 17,018 births; the fewest was 2 in 1955. The lead changed hands among 5 names across those 7 snapshots (Helen, Heidi, Heather, Hannah and Harper), and Harper leads again in 2025, at #16.

Of the births inside each snapshot's top 200 for girls, H names took 0.5% in 1955, 0.9% in 1965, 3.5% in 1975, 2.9% in 1985, 3.9% in 1995, 3.3% in 2005 and 3.8% in 2015; the largest of those 7 shares is 1995's and the smallest 1955's. Cut to the same top-200 depth, the 2025 list holds 7 H names with 3.7% of its births, led by Harper at #16. The move from 0.5% (1955) to 3.8% (2015) is H's row in First-letter trends since 1955, the guide that tabulates all 26 initials for every snapshot year and both sexes, listed with the rest of the data guides.

Faded and new H girl names

Nothing has faded at the committed depths: each H girl name found in a snapshot top 200 is still on the 2025 list, and 14 of the table's 50 rows have at least one snapshot appearance.

The 2025 table also carries 36 names that no snapshot top 200 contains: Hallie (#120), Haven (#190), Harlow (#309), Hattie (#334), Helena (#363), Harley (#418), Haisley (#479), Hanna (#512), Heaven (#543), Holland (#550), Hadassah (#570) and Halle (#596), and 24 more. Because the committed snapshots stop at rank 200, this says only that Hallie (#120 in 2025) and the other 35 sat outside the top 200 in each of 1955, 1965, 1975, 1985, 1995, 2005, 2015, not that they went unregistered in those years.

The shape of the 2025 H list

On the SSA spelling, 4 of the 50 names in the 2025 H table have four letters or fewer, 42 have five to seven, and 4 have eight or more. The 2025 rank spans by length class are 4 short spellings from Hope at #352 to Huda at #1,739; 42 medium spellings from Harper at #16 to Hadassa at #1,695; and 4 long spellings from Hadassah at #570 to Harleigh at #1,534. By letter count, Hope is the shortest spelling in the 2025 table (4 letters, #352) and Hadassah the longest (8 letters, #570). "a" is the second letter of 33 of the 50 names in the 2025 H table, "o" of 8, and "e" of 7; 4 second letters are used in total.

Across the sexes, 9 of these 50 spellings also sit on the 2025 boys' H list, where the SSA ranks each sex on its own: Haven (#190 for girls, #1,354 for boys), Harlow (#309 for girls, #1,214 for boys), Harley (#418 for girls, #1,083 for boys), Hayden (#437 for girls, #161 for boys), Holland (#550 for girls, #1,367 for boys), Halo (#613 for girls, #931 for boys), Hunter (#842 for girls, #130 for boys) and Hollis (#1,132 for girls, #894 for boys), and 1 more.

H girl names: questions the data answers

What is the most popular girl name starting with H in 2025?

Harper. The 2025 SSA data records 6,792 girls named Harper, which places it at #16 among all girl names that year, inside the overall top 100.

How many girl names starting with H are in the 2025 top 1,000?

30. Together they account for 3.4% of the births in the 2025 top 1,000, the 10th-largest share among the 26 initials.

Why does this page list 50 H girl names?

The committed per-letter file holds the 50 most-registered 2025 girl names for each initial, and H fills it: the 50th row is Huda at #1,739. Any H names below that cut are outside the committed depth and are not shown.

Which H girl name on this page has the lowest rank?

Huda, at #1,739 with 117 births in 2025. Ranks are overall positions among all 2025 girl names, so the span from #16 to #1,739 covers names that start with other letters.

How many H girl names were in the top 200 in 1955 and in 2015?

2 in 1955 (led by Helen at #78) and 7 in 2015 (led by Harper at #10). Each snapshot is one SSA year ranked to a depth of 200, and H's highest count among the 7 is 7 in 1995.

Do any of these H girl names also appear on the boys' H list for 2025?

Yes, 9 of the 50: Haven (#190 for girls, #1,354 for boys), Harlow (#309 for girls, #1,214 for boys), Harley (#418 for girls, #1,083 for boys), Hayden (#437 for girls, #161 for boys), Holland (#550 for girls, #1,367 for boys), Halo (#613 for girls, #931 for boys), Hunter (#842 for girls, #130 for boys) and Hollis (#1,132 for girls, #894 for boys), and 1 more. The SSA ranks each sex on its own, which is why Haven carries #190 with 1,642 births for girls and #1,354 with 139 for boys.

Other letters

Boy names for this letter: boy 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.