How Many People Are Named Huey?
people named Huey are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 118,387 people in the US has this name
Based on 7,103 babies named Huey in Social Security records from 1880 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
494 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Variant of HUGHIE.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Huey in English. Counting Huey and these spellings together, about 3,350 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Huey in the records were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Huey alive today is about 56 years old, and 56% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 41 and 75 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Huey first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 1935, to 494 babies. In 2025, 42 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Huey has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #237, in 1935. In 2025 it ranked #2,954.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #2,954 |
| Best rank | #237 (1935) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #373 in the 1930s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Huey alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Huey were born in Louisiana than in any other state: about 823 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Huey was given 27.3 times as often in Louisiana, 6 times in Alabama and 3.8 times in Mississippi.
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