Hughie

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Hughie: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Hughie: Recorded since 1986, its highest recorded position is #307, and it stood at #372 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
52times a registrar ranked it
40years from first to last
#307highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2863
2001	#2220
2002	#2005
2003	#1629
2004	#2304
2005	#1991
2006	#1643
2007	#1169
2008	#1511
2009	#1425
2010	#1344
2011	#1209
2012	#1229
2013	#931
2014	#765
2015	#873
2016	#748
2017	#537
2018	#497
2019	#385
2020	#454
2021	#412
2022	#335
2023	#361
2024	#358

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Republic of Ireland in 24 of the 40 years from 1986 to 2025.

In 2024: #307 among boys in Scotland, #358 among boys in England and Wales, #785 among boys in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1986–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1986
First recorded at #317 among boys in Republic of Ireland in 1986 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #372 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Hughie appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, with 25 ranked years and 1,130 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Boys, from 1986.

Hughie across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Hughie's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#317 (1986)	#317 (1986)	#372 (2025)	24 of 40	133 (1986–2025)	10 (2021)
England and Wales · Boys	#2863 (1996)	#335 (2022)	#358 (2024)	25 of 29	1,130 (1996–2024)	129 (2022)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#375 (2011)	#374 (2021)	#374 (2021)	2 of 11	7 (2011–2021)	4 (2021)

Hughie by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Hughie in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	3	1 of 10	3
2000s	95	9 of 10	11
2010s	475	10 of 10	48
2020sbusiest	557	5 of 10	111

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 111 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2018 and 2019, when recorded births rose by 33, from 79 to 112.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Hughie appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1986 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #307 in Scotland in 2024.

Hughie's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#358	122	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#361	116	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#335	129	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#412	103	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#454	87	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#385	112	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#497	79	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#537	72	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#748	45	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#873	35	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#765	41	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#931	31	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1229	21	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1209	21	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1344	18	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1425	16	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1511	14	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1169	20	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1643	11	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1991	8	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#2304	6	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1629	9	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#2005	6	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#2220	5	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2863	3	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	male	#374	4	High	Verified
2011	Northern Ireland	male	#375	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#372	10	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#785	3	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#396	9	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#380	10	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#364	10	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#459	7	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#564	5	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	male	#520	6	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	male	#547	5	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	male	#601	4	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	male	#459	7	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	male	#428	8	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	male	#605	4	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	male	#548	5	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	male	#490	6	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	male	#720	3	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	male	#701	3	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	male	#384	6	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	male	#370	6	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	male	#451	3	High	Verified
1998	Republic of Ireland	male	#324	4	High	Verified
1995	Republic of Ireland	male	#334	3	High	Verified
1994	Republic of Ireland	male	#342	3	High	Verified
1986	Republic of Ireland	male	#317	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#307	12	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1986 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #307, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 129 births, registered in England and Wales in 2022.

Its record falls into 4 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 7 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 38 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Huey · #715, 25y
Hugh · #53, 64y
Hugo · #18, 81y
Hukam · #1951, 10y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Jayson · #307, 32y
Lucca · #309, 30y
Kobie · #311, 27y
Shae · #303, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1980s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1980 and 1989.

Serina · #306, 41y
Malena · #305, 33y
Daryll · #303, 9y
Dave · #303, 31y

Hughie was ranked #307 in Scotland · Boys in 2024. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Hughie and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Hughie without appearing here.

Hughie moved ahead of

Leif Compare
In 2005 they stood at #1991 and #1617 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #1643 and #4052.
Shannon Compare
In 2005 they stood at #2304 and #2304 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #1643 and #4052.
Gustav Compare
In 2004 they stood at #2304 and #2070 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2005 that had become #1991 and #3849.
Willow Compare
In 2004 they stood at #2863 and #2863 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2005 that had become #1991 and #3849.

Moved ahead of Hughie

Mason Compare
In 2008 they stood at #384 and #493 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2009 that had become #701 and #240.
Finley Compare
In 2011 they stood at #490 and #623 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2012 that had become #548 and #336.
Albie Compare
In 2022 they stood at #380 and #429 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2023 that had become #396 and #243.
Brodie Compare
In 2014 they stood at #428 and #508 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2015 that had become #459 and #421.

Moved the opposite way to Hughie

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Hughie went from #2863 to #358 while Aaron went from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Hughie went from #2863 to #358 while Adam went from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Hughie went from #2863 to #358 while Alan went from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Hughie went from #2863 to #358 while Alex went from #43 to #171.

Moved the same way as Hughie

Gary Compare
Between 1986 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Hughie went from #317 to #785 and Gary from #34 to #785.
Kenneth Compare
Between 1986 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Hughie went from #317 to #785 and Kenneth from #65 to #785.
Phillip Compare
Between 1986 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Hughie went from #317 to #785 and Phillip from #217 to #785.
Ashley Compare
Between 1986 and 2020 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Hughie went from #317 to #459 and Ashley from #230 to #637.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1986 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #307 in Scotland in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Hughie

Hughie at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Hughie across 3 official records

Hughie by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Hughie appears in

Popularity data

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Hughie at a glance

Hughie across 3 official records

Hughie by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Hughie appears in

What the record shows

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Next in the catalogue

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Also first recorded in the 1980s

Names published alongside Hughie

Hughie and the names beside it

Hughie moved ahead of

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