Hampton
Hampton is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 116 births. Its best rank was 505th, in 1891.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1160.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 2024116 births
- Best rank
- #505in 1891
- Since 1880
- 4,877people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,656 boys have been named Hampton in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2024, with 116 births.
This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1974, and the 2010s alone account for 16%. It has spent 35 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 221 girls have also been given it, 4.5% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Hampton | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 77 | |
| 1890s | 80 | |
| 1900s | 124 | |
| 1910s | 361 | |
| 1920s | 467 | |
| 1930s | 340 | |
| 1940s | 318 | |
| 1950s | 275 | |
| 1960s | 213 | |
| 1970s | 142 | |
| 1980s | 168 | |
| 1990s | 311 | |
| 2000s | 506 | |
| 2010s | 759 | |
| 2020s | 515 |
In 2024, its biggest year
Hampton was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2024 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, Theodore and James. See all of 2024.
Names that rose and fell with Hampton
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Fletcherpeak 2024
- Emorypeak 1920
- Ellispeak 2024
- Fosterpeak 2023
- Orenpeak 2021
- Mosespeak 2016
- Noblepeak 1920
- Levypeak 2021
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.