Hughie

What Hughie means

Diminutive of Hugh, meaning “heart, mind”

diminutive of the male given name Hugh || From the Old French aristocratic and saint's name Hughe, brought to England by Normans, from a short form of Germanic names beginning with Proto-Germanic *hugiz (“heart, mind”), such as Hubert.

Source: Wiktionary, “Hughie” (revision 83830471) and “Hugh” (revision 93671391), CC BY-SA 4.0. Quoted from the etymology; we don’t write our own.

How popular is Hughie?

US: New in the last 10 years. England & Wales: Rising: up from #873 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1899, when 9 boys got the name (#714 that year). First in the US records in 1888.

How common

• About 1 in 244,011 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 2,193 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 1,964 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

US vs UK

Hughie is #9714 in the US and #342 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Hughie were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Spelling variants on Wiktionary

• Huey

Listed as alternative forms on Wiktionary.

If you like Hughie

Boys

• Colter#157Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #157 vs #1,466 in 2025
• Ismael#263Form of Ishmael, meaning “God hears, God will hear”^*
• Sonny#298Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #822 in 2015, #298 in 2025
• Stetson#136“site in the Parish of South Brent”^*
• Arthur#87possibly “bear”^*
• Rafael#218Variant of Raphael, meaning “God cures/has healed”^*

For a sister

• Daisy#75From the word “daisy”^*
• Annie#182Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1922, with 7,476 babies; 1,690 in 2025
• Hallie#120Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #565 in 2015, #120 in 2025
• Celine#207“heaven”^*
• Alora#195“my dream”^*
• Sylvia#300“forest”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Hughie’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.