# Hoyt (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/hoyt/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 8,572 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 8,562 / 10 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1922 | 5 | 5,347 |
| 1924 | 5 | 5,421 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 81 | 1,787 |
| 2012 | 95 | 1,629 |
| 2013 | 101 | 1,559 |
| 2014 | 94 | 1,646 |
| 2015 | 124 | 1,390 |
| 2016 | 107 | 1,548 |
| 2017 | 100 | 1,606 |
| 2018 | 93 | 1,691 |
| 2019 | 86 | 1,797 |
| 2020 | 73 | 1,970 |
| 2021 | 82 | 1,875 |
| 2022 | 86 | 1,858 |
| 2023 | 64 | 2,233 |
| 2024 | 55 | 2,487 |
| 2025 | 44 | 2,854 |

## People named Hoyt

- Hoyt Axton, American musician (1938–1999)
- Hoyt Curtin, American composer and music producer (1922-2000)
- Hoyt Richards, American actor-model
- Hoyt Wilhelm, American baseball player
- Hoyt Yeatman, American visual effects artist
- Clem Beauchamp, American actor and director (1898–1992)
- Ray Thornton, American politician (1928–2016)
- Albert H. Taylor, American electrical engineer

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.