Hartford

#6,325 for girls in 2025, 18 births · #6,446 for boys in 2025, 13 births
Given to boys 86.5% of the time

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Peak · boys
1890 · 5 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
456
since 1890

Hartford over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201890peak #994, 1890girlsat peakboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#6,32518#6,44613
2024#6,93216#8,9878
2023#7,64014#8,2559
2022#7,28115#8,9908
2021#11,1468#6,33513
2020
2019#9,7567
2018#9,6707
2017
2016#12,1855
2015#9,5687
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2002#10,6675
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1973#5,1015
1972
1971#4,3756
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1966#3,9485
1965
1964#3,6016
1963
1962
1961#3,6526
1960#3,6656
1959#3,6196
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1954#3,8275
1953
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1951#3,3646
1950#2,7708
1949#3,0197
1948#3,3166
1947
1946#3,5255
1945#2,7437
1944#3,1096
1943#2,5639
1942#3,5605
1941
1940#2,8717
1939#3,4805
1938#3,1756
1937#1,91314
1936
1935
1934#2,9737
1933#3,6425
1932
1931#3,7635
1930#3,5926
1929#2,45211
1928#2,8439
1927#2,52311
1926#3,1398
1925#1,87018
1924#1,77620
1923#2,9509
1922#3,0149
1921#2,50212
1920#2,45912
1919#2,51111
1918#2,16514
1917#2,28012
1916#2,25912
1915#3,0827
1914#2,4578
1913#1,80310
1912#2,0457
1911
1910
1909#1,4405
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1895#1,0795
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1890#9945
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First appearance
1890

The first year at least five boys were named Hartford! It came in at #994, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1890–1911, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Hartford
Momentum · boys
Brand new
  • 2,541 spots since 2024 (#8,987#6,446)
  • 3,122 spots since 2015 (#9,568#6,446)
Rise & fade · boys
Peaked on debut
  • Debuted 1890
  • Peaked 1890 at #994 (5 births)
  • Births halved by 1891, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 1 yr
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 1 yr · 1890
Share of babies · boys
1 in 22,205
  • Highest: 1 in 22,205 boys born in 1890 were named Hartford (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 131,390 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1920s
  • 26.1% of all boys named Hartford (119) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2022
  • Mostly boys until 2021, mostly girls since
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1890s10#994 (1890)#1,037
1900s5#1,440 (1909)#1,440
1910s81#1,803 (1913)#2,325
1920s119#1,776 (1924)#2,553
1930s48#1,913 (1937)#3,220
1940s52#2,563 (1943)#3,088
1950s25#2,770 (1950)#3,395
1960s23#3,601 (1964)#3,717
1970s11#4,375 (1971)#4,738
1980s0
1990s0
2000s5#10,667 (2002)#10,667
2010s26#9,568 (2015)#10,295
2020s51#6,335 (2021)#7,803

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Hartford in 1890

boys
#994
5 births · 1 in 22,205 boys

Top boys' names in 1890

  1. #1John8,502
  2. #2William7,494
  3. #3James5,097
  4. #4George4,458
  5. #5Charles4,061
  6. #6Frank3,078
  7. #7Joseph2,670
  8. #8Robert2,541
  9. #9Henry2,349
  10. #10Harry2,345
  11. #994Hartford5
More about 1890

boys

111,024 boys got a published name in 1890; 1 in 22,205 of them was named Hartford, which outranked 14.4% of the 1,161 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 38.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Hartford
  1. #884Willam6
  2. #884Winston6
  3. #884Wright6
  4. #994Hartford5
  5. #994Add5
  6. #994Adolfo5
  7. #994Alberto5

Tied with 167 names at #994; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1889
Risers
  1. 463Hoyt#974#511
  2. 441Ebb#974#533
  3. 371Eva#974#603
  4. 371Perley#974#603
  5. 371Jimmy#974#603
Fallers
  1. 530Alvie#464#994
  2. 438Thornton#446#884
  3. 420Hezekiah#464#884
  4. 413Essie#581#994
  5. 413Clare#581#994

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1890