Huxley

#3,975 for girls in 2025, 36 births · #736 for boys in 2025, 357 births
Given to boys 90.5% of the time

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Peak · boys
2020 · 526 births
Debut · boys
7 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
4,734
since 2002

Huxley over time

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

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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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rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#3,97536#736357
2024#4,47331#743346
2023#3,32948#619453
2022#3,36547#611457
2021#2,81860#586476
2020#3,33846#537526
2019#2,85658#588471
2018#3,29348#666379
2017#4,38432#792291
2016#5,13026#867259
2015#6,03621#958215
2014#6,71318#1,355126
2013#8,13514#1,76382
2012#14,9626#1,71188
2011#16,7645#2,10563
2010#2,82642
2009#3,72128
2008#3,74428
2007#5,66115
2006#8,7328
2005#6,22612
2004#11,3565
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First appearance
2002

The first year at least five boys were named Huxley! It came in at #8,456, and was given to 7 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 2003–2004, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Huxley
Momentum · boys
Falling
  • 7 spots since 2024 (#743#736)
  • 199 spots since 2020 (#537#736)
  • 222 spots since 2015 (#958#736)
  • Biggest jump: 397 spots in 2015 (#1,355#958)
  • Biggest drop: 124 spots in 2024 (#619#743)
Rise & fade · boys
18 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 2002
  • Peaked 2020 at #537 (526 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 11 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 11 yrs · run 2015–2025
Share of babies · boys
1 in 3,282
  • Highest: 1 in 3,282 boys born in 2020 were named Huxley (0.03%)
  • Latest: 1 in 4,785 boys born in 2025 (0.02%)
Era · boys
The 2020s
  • 55.2% of all boys named Huxley (2,615) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Never flipped
  • The majority has never changed
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DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
2000s103#3,721 (2009)#6,842
2010s2,016#588 (2019)#1,363
2020s2,615#537 (2020)#639

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.

Huxley in 2018

girls
#3,293
48 births · 1 in 35,439 girls
boys
#666
379 births · 1 in 4,792 boys

Top girls' names in 2018

  1. #1Emma18,824
  2. #2Olivia18,061
  3. #3Ava15,034
  4. #4Isabella14,575
  5. #5Sophia14,013
  6. #6Charlotte13,038
  7. #7Mia12,742
  8. #8Amelia12,405
  9. #9Harper10,646
  10. #10Evelyn10,433
  11. #3,293Huxley48

Top boys' names in 2018

  1. #1Liam19,977
  2. #2Noah18,441
  3. #3William14,646
  4. #4James13,650
  5. #5Oliver13,500
  6. #6Benjamin13,488
  7. #7Elijah13,020
  8. #8Lucas12,665
  9. #9Mason12,526
  10. #10Logan12,447
  11. #666Huxley379
More about 2018

girls

1,701,074 girls got a published name in 2018; 1 in 35,439 of them was named Huxley, which outranked 81.9% of the 18,152 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Huxley
  1. #3,245Zakiyah49
  2. #3,245Zamara49
  3. #3,245Zina49
  4. #3,293Huxley48
  5. #3,293Adrianne48
  6. #3,293Alycia48
  7. #3,293Alynna48
  8. #3,346Abbygail47
  9. #3,346Aina47
  10. #3,346Amairani47

Tied with 52 names at #3,293; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2017
Risers
  1. 680Meghan#1,387#707
  2. 567Dior#1,360#793
  3. 367Palmer#1,042#675
  4. 361Adalee#1,217#856
  5. 346Oaklynn#888#542
Fallers
  1. 334Audrina#847#1,181
  2. 234Courtney#952#1,186
  3. 232Marjorie#938#1,170
  4. 228Anabelle#969#1,197
  5. 225Angelique#799#1,024

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

boys

1,816,158 boys got a published name in 2018; 1 in 4,792 of them was named Huxley, which outranked 95.3% of the 14,118 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Huxley
  1. #661Sonny382
  2. #664Devon381
  3. #664Korbin381
  4. #666Huxley379
  5. #666Boone379
  6. #666Bruno379
  7. #666Orlando379
  8. #670Maurice377
  9. #671Gary374
  10. #671Nelson374

Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2017
Risers
  1. 594Genesis#1,575#981
  2. 436Baker#1,149#713
  3. 430Saint#1,287#857
  4. 319Kairo#802#483
  5. 307Watson#1,020#713
Fallers
  1. 235Aaden#893#1,128
  2. 224Dilan#917#1,141
  3. 201Craig#980#1,181
  4. 177Mike#951#1,128
  5. 172Harper#798#970

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

See the top 100 for 2018