Huxley
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
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
By decade
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.
- Shivanshpeak 2019
- Bowiepeak 2021
- Kaiuspeak 2020
- Hendrixpeak 2022
- Zaynpeak 2024
- Kassiuspeak 2022
- Maverickpeak 2022
- Revanpeak 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.