Hue vs Huey
American parents have registered 7,103 Hueys since 1880, against 565 Hues. Huey is still ahead, with 42 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Hue Huey
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
Of the 137 years in which either name was published, Huey for 129 years and Hue for 8 years. The lead changed hands 10 times.
Side by side
| Hue | Huey | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 565 | 7,103 |
| Most in one year | 19 | 494 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | 42 |
| Estimated living today | 340 | 2,900 |
| Median age today | 38 | 63 |
| Peak year | 1931 | 1935 |
| Best rank | 2,003rd boys | 237th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | 2,941st |
| First recorded | 1913 | 1880 |
| Girls / boys | 89 / 476 | 5 / 7,098 |
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 Hueys alive today are over 63; half the Hues are over 38. That is 25 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Hue California (8.7×)
- Huey Louisiana (29.5×), Alabama (8.0×), Mississippi (5.3×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
Compare something else
Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Hue and Huey.