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Huda vs Hudsen

American parents have registered 2,021 Hudas since 1880, against 590 Hudsens. Huda is still ahead, with 117 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Huda against Hudsen, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Huda Hudsen

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Huda has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1976 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2010, when Huda had 39 and Hudsen had 33.

Side by side

  Huda Hudsen
Total US births 2,021590
Most in one year 11741
Babies in 2025 11727
Estimated living today 2,000590
Median age today 149
Peak year 20252021
Best rank 1,733rd girls3,242nd boys
Rank in 2025 1,733rd3,949th
First recorded 19762003
Girls / boys 2,021 / 022 / 568

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Hudas alive today are over 14; half the Hudsens are over 9. That is 5 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Huda and Hudsen.