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Huxley

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Huxley is ranked 743rd among boys in 2024 (345 births). Its best rank was 537th, in 2020.

Rank in 2024
#743down 125 from 2023
Births in 2024
3450.02% of boys
Peak year
2020526 births
Best rank
#537in 2020
Since 2002
4,835people given the name
Babies named Huxley, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

4,375 boys have been named Huxley in the United States since 2002, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2020, with 526 births.

It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2020, and the 2020s alone account for 52%. It has spent 10 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 460 girls have also been given it, 9.5% of the total.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadeboys named Huxley
2000s103
2010s2,016
2020s2,256

In 2020, its biggest year

Huxley was the 537th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2020 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, Elijah and William. See all of 2020.

Names that rose and fell with Huxley

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

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.