How Many People Are Named Hiawatha?
people named Hiawatha are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 696,099 people in the US has this name
Based on 1,228 babies named Hiawatha in Social Security records from 1911 to 2004, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
31 births
Trend
Last year given
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
From the Iroquoian name Haio-went-ha meaning "he who combs". This was the name of a 16th-century Mohawk leader who founded the Iroquois Confederacy. He was later the subject of a fictionalized 1855 poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Hiawatha, 25% were girls and 75% were boys. The share has stayed close to this since the 1910s: 31% of the babies were girls then and 28.3% in the 1960s.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Hiawatha alive today is about 65 years old, and 66% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 55 and 75 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Hiawatha first appears in the records in 1911 and was given most often in 1934, to 31 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2004.
Babies given the name each year, 1911 to 2004
🏆 Rank History
Hiawatha has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #1,339, in 1934. Among girls, its best rank was #2,656, in 1913.
| Boys | Girls | |
|---|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #1,339 (1934) | #2,656 (1913) |
| Years in the top 100 | None | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #2,045 in the 1920s | #3,688 in the 1920s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Hiawatha alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Hiawatha were born in Virginia than in any other state: about 4 of those alive today.
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