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Baby name
Hector
Boy
Origin of the name
Hector comes, through Latin, from the ancient Greek HektĹŤr, the Trojan hero of the Trojan War, killed by Achilles.
Classic name
108,728births since 1880
2000sgeneration
No. 167rank at its peak, in 2005
Where babies named Hector are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Hector is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Hector is most common in Arizona (3.5 times), Texas (3.5) and California (2.9), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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