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Hurbert vs Hurlie

American parents have registered 640 Hurberts since 1880, against 7 Hurlies. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Hurbert against Hurlie, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Hurbert Hurlie

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

Hurbert has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1891 to 1980. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1924, when Hurbert had 23 and Hurlie had 7.

Side by side

  Hurbert Hurlie
Total US births 6407
Most in one year 287
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 1300
Median age today 73101
Peak year 19281924
Best rank 1,382nd boys3,505th boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 18911924
Girls / boys 0 / 6400 / 7

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 Hurlies alive today are over 101; half the Hurberts are over 73. That is 28 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: Hurbert and Hurlie.