Hugh
78
Babies in 2024
-35%
10-year change
1997
Peak · 165
-17%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Hugh
Hugh peaked among UK boys' names in the late 1990s (165 babies in 1997) and has remained in active use — 78 boys were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Hugh reached its peak in 1997, when 165 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #198 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 78 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 3,214 boys have been officially registered with the name Hugh in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 1,235 boys were registered with the name, starting from 121 in 2014 and ending at 78 in 2024.