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NAMES LIKE HOWARD
Same rise and fall as Howard, around the same years.
WHERE HOWARD IS POPULAR · 2024
In 2024, Howard ranked highest in Minnesota (#869) and lowest in Florida (#3,352). 33 states had fewer than 5 babies with the name, too few to list.
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MARKET MOVERS · 10 YEARS
Howard name popularity
Howard has been given to 348,342 babies in the United States since 1880.
It peaked in 1921, when 7,749 babies got the name, and its best rank was #57 in 1922.
In 2025, 226 babies were named Howard (#2,040 in the country), 97% below the peak. That is up 16% from 2015.
Almost every Howard is a boy.
An estimated 136K people named Howard are alive in the US today, with a median age of 70.
It was a top-100 name in 35 of the 146 years on record.
HOW IT WORKS
The chart is the number of US babies given the name each year, from the Social Security Administration’s public baby-name files (names given to 5+ babies in a year). The “all-time high” is the name’s biggest year. “Holders” and “median holder age” are rough estimates that apply average US survival rates to each birth year, so they ignore immigration and name changes.
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