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Baby name
Hugh
Boy
Origin of the name
Hugh comes from the Germanic hug, “mind, heart.” The Normans brought it to England.
Classic name
83,825births since 1880
1910sgeneration
No. 96rank at its peak, in 1916
Where babies named Hugh are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Hugh is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Hugh is most common in Georgia (2.6 times), Tennessee (2.4) and Mississippi (2.3), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
One letter apart
- Hugo 37,482
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