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Howard

Boy's name · #1004 in the US (2025) · Vintage

Popularity over time

Howard belongs to an older America first — it reached #24 back in 1919 — yet it still appears in today's records at #1004. About 347,000 boys have carried it since 1880. In all that time it has never once missed a year of the national records.

Across the states

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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 20 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Around the world

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#1,500 in Canada (2025) · #1,897 in England & Wales (2025) · #2,322 in Ecuador (2025) · #4,537 in France (2024) · #701 in Ireland (2009) · #276 in Scotland (1983) · #286 in New Zealand (1976) · #90 in Australia (NSW) (1954).

Famous Howards

• Howard Carter — British Egyptologist (1874–1939)
• Howard Hughes — American aviator, aerospace engineer and business magnate (1905–1976)
• Howard Florey — Australian pathologist (1898–1968)
• Howard Hawks — American film director (1896–1977)
• Howard Zinn — American historian and socialist philosopher (1922–2010)
• Howard Stern — American radio and television personality (born 1954)
• Howard Shore — Canadian film score composer (born 1946)
• Howard Schultz — American businessman (born 1953)
• Howard Keel — American actor and singer (1919–2004)
• Howard Dean — American politician (born 1948)

In stories & tradition

• Howard the Duck — Marvel Comics character
• Howard Wolowitz — Fictional character on the television series The Big Bang Theory
• Howard Stark — Fictional character in Marvel Comics

What Howards become

Among 2,397 notable people named Howard:

Lawyers & judges appear 1.36× more often than among typical names — e.g. Howard Lincoln, American lawyer, businessman, and baseball executive (born 1940).

Similar names: Ralph · Harold · Bernard · Clifford · Leonard · Stanley

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