Girl Names That Start With H

Girl names that start with H in the 2025 data

H is the eleventh most common first letter for girls born in 2025: 52,328 of them, 3.3% of every girl in the file. It held eleventh place a decade ago too, and its share has barely moved: 3.3% then, 3.3% now.

This list holds the 45 of those names that reached the top 500 as a girl's name at some point since 1880 and are still given to girls rather than boys. The most common today is Harper, #16 with 6,792 girls in 2025. 3 of the 45 are in this year's top 100, and 39 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 — Henry, Hunter and Harry. Each reached the top 500 among girls at some point, but fewer than one in ten children given it over the last ten years was a girl. Together they account for 38,322 of those 52,328 girls — 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 Haisley, up from #2,773 in 2015 to #479 in 2025. Hayden has gone the other way, from #191 to #437. The shortest name here is Hope at 4 letters, the longest Henrietta at 9.