Boy Names That Start With H

Boy names that start with H in the 2025 data

H is the fifteenth most common first letter for boys born in 2025: 51,859 of them, 3.0% of every boy in the file. It held fifteenth place a decade ago too, and its share has grown from 2.6% to 3.0%.

This list holds the 57 of those names that reached the top 500 as a boy's name at some point since 1880 and are still given to boys rather than girls. The most common today is Henry, #5 with 12,020 boys in 2025. 2 of the 57 are in this year's top 100, and 48 appear in the 2025 file at all — which takes at least five births, the point below which a name is left out. Three other names starting with H are left out — Hazel, Hallie and Helen. Each reached the top 500 among boys at some point, but fewer than one in ten children given it over the last ten years was a boy. Together they account for 41,411 of those 51,859 boys — the remainder go to names that have never reached the top 500, each given to a handful of children.

The fastest climber among them is Hayes, up from #539 in 2015 to #162 in 2025. Hector has gone the other way, from #303 to #409. The shortest name here is Hal at 3 letters, the longest Henderson at 9.