# Hugo (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/hugo/  
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 | “thought”, “mind”, “spirit” |
| Pronunciation | /ˈhju.ɡoʊ/, 2 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 37,518 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 37,482 / 36 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 19,873, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From Old French Hugo, of Germanic origin, from Frankish *hugi (“thought, mind, spirit”).

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 5 | 11,096 |
| 1987 | 5 | 11,955 |
| 1990 | 6 | 11,912 |
| 1992 | 6 | 12,315 |
| 1993 | 8 | 9,915 |
| 2020 | 6 | 14,101 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 618 | 439 |
| 2012 | 639 | 433 |
| 2013 | 656 | 439 |
| 2014 | 695 | 436 |
| 2015 | 708 | 432 |
| 2016 | 724 | 430 |
| 2017 | 750 | 416 |
| 2018 | 733 | 422 |
| 2019 | 648 | 462 |
| 2020 | 709 | 421 |
| 2021 | 714 | 437 |
| 2022 | 800 | 400 |
| 2023 | 771 | 415 |
| 2024 | 799 | 404 |
| 2025 | 837 | 378 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 448 | 139 |
| 2012 | 724 | 88 |
| 2013 | 842 | 74 |
| 2014 | 956 | 70 |
| 2015 | 1,153 | 55 |
| 2016 | 1,234 | 50 |
| 2017 | 1,311 | 48 |
| 2018 | 1,279 | 53 |
| 2019 | 1,329 | 48 |
| 2020 | 1,196 | 51 |
| 2021 | 1,325 | 45 |
| 2022 | 1,193 | 47 |
| 2023 | 1,174 | 48 |
| 2024 | 1,094 | 46 |
| 2025 | 1,094 | 46 |

## People named Hugo

- Hugo Chávez, 30th and 33rd President of Venezuela
- Hugo Grotius, Dutch jurist and scholar (1583-1645)
- Hugo Lloris, French footballer (born 1986)
- Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austrian novelist, librettist, poet, dramatist (1874–1929)
- Hugo de Vries, Dutch botanist (1848-1935)
- Hugo Theorell, biochemist (1903-1982)
- Hugo Wolf, Austrian composer (1860–1903)
- Hugo Campagnaro, Argentine association football player
- Hugo Ball, German author, poet and one of the leading Dada artists (1886–1927)
- Hugo Gunckel Lüer, Chilean botanist (1901–1997)
- Hugo Gernsback, American inventor, writer, editor and publisher (1884–1967)
- Hugo Junkers, German aviation pioneer (1859–1935)

## 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.