Hoke

Last seen for boys in 2021 at #10,799

Peak · boys
1907 · 15 births
Debut · boys
7 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
622
since 1900

Hoke over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Hoke has never cracked the top 600 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201909peak #664, 1907boys
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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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Yearboys
rankbirths
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2021#10,7996
2020#12,0225
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2016#12,1855
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2011#12,2875
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1970#3,07110
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1968#2,44512
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1964#3,6016
1963—
1962#3,6406
1961#3,3567
1960—
1959#3,2907
1958—
1957#3,9935
1956#3,9425
1955#3,8865
1954#2,9428
1953#3,1437
1952#3,0957
1951#3,0667
1950—
1949#2,6069
1948#3,6685
1947#3,7335
1946#2,9197
1945#2,13111
1944#2,6338
1943#2,27711
1942#2,38610
1941#1,99713
1940#2,8717
1939#2,15911
1938#1,68917
1937#2,33210
1936#2,30110
1935#1,83715
1934#1,78316
1933#1,99713
1932#2,19112
1931#2,20712
1930#2,07914
1929#1,84817
1928#3,6976
1927#2,70310
1926#3,7086
1925#2,31313
1924—
1923#3,4677
1922#2,63011
1921#3,5177
1920#2,05216
1919#4,1685
1918#1,82718
1917#2,28012
1916#1,94915
1915#1,87815
1914#1,44118
1913#1,58012
1912#1,7469
1911#1,1909
1910#67719
1909#95110
1908#1,1137
1907#66415
1906#67413
1905#8369
1904#9667
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1900#1,0507
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First appearance
1900

The first year at least five boys were named Hoke! It came in at #1,050, and was given to 7 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1901–1903, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

Where Hoke is popular in 1909

The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.

See more about Hoke
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2021
  • Biggest jump: 274 spots in 1910 (#951 → #677)
  • Biggest drop: 513 spots in 1911 (#677 → #1,190)
Rise & fade · boys
7 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1900
  • Peaked 1907 at #664 (15 births)
  • Births halved by 1908, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 6 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 6 yrs · run 1904–1907
Share of babies · boys
1 in 9,788
  • Highest: 1 in 9,788 boys born in 1907 were named Hoke (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 291,580 boys born in 2021 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1910s
  • 21.2% of all boys named Hoke (132) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1900s68#664 (1907)#893
1910s132#677 (1910)#1,874
1920s93#1,848 (1929)#2,882
1930s130#1,689 (1938)#2,058
1940s86#1,997 (1941)#2,722
1950s51#2,942 (1954)#3,420
1960s31#2,445 (1968)#3,261
1970s10#3,071 (1970)#3,071
1980s0——
1990s0——
2000s0——
2010s10#12,185 (2016)#12,236
2020s11#10,799 (2021)#11,411

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.

Hoke in 1909

boys
#951
10 births · 1 in 16,400 boys

Top boys' names in 1909

  1. #1John9,590
  2. #2William7,913
  3. #3James7,595
  4. #4George4,688
  5. #5Robert4,563
  6. #6Joseph4,348
  7. #7Charles4,029
  8. #8Frank3,244
  9. #9Edward2,935
  10. #10Thomas2,468
  11. #951Hoke10
More about 1909

boys

163,996 boys got a published name in 1909; 1 in 16,400 of them was named Hoke, which outranked 43.4% of the 1,679 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 31.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Hoke
  1. #893Sarah11
  2. #893Sonny11
  3. #893Waino11
  4. #951Hoke10
  5. #951Adelbert10
  6. #951Angel10
  7. #951Arvin10
  8. #1,020Alberta9
  9. #1,020Allison9
  10. #1,020Alvah9

Tied with 68 names at #951; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1908
Risers
  1. ↑ 783Toney#1,373 → #590
  2. ↑ 720Cicero#1,373 → #653
  3. ↑ 538Alfonzo#1,217 → #679
  4. ↑ 533Bessie#1,373 → #840
  5. ↑ 533Ezell#1,373 → #840
Fallers
  1. ↓ 874Tracy#566 → #1,440
  2. ↓ 808Jonah#632 → #1,440
  3. ↓ 808Lew#632 → #1,440
  4. ↓ 783Blair#657 → #1,440
  5. ↓ 728Perley#712 → #1,440

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

See the top 100 for 1909 →