Huckleberry
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- HUK-ul-ber-ee
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #12,003 for boys
Huckleberry is a boys' name of English origin, meaning “huckleberry”. In 2025 it ranked 12,003rd for boys in the US (5 babies).
What does Huckleberry mean?
English: English word for a berry
“huckleberry”
Huckleberry Finn is the boy hero of Mark Twain's 1884 novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Is Huckleberry a girl's or a boy's name?
Huckleberry is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Huckleberry in the UK?
No boys in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2015, with 8 boys.
Half of all the boys named Huckleberry in the UK since 1996 were born between 2015 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
Huckleberry in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 3 | #5,193 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 4 | #4,188 |
| 2020 | 6 | #3,108 |
| 2019 | 6 | #3,184 |
| 2018 | 3 | #4,959 |
| 2017 | 8 | #2,656 |
| 2016 | 4 | #4,214 |
| 2015 | 8 | #2,614 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 1 | #6,198 |
| 2012 | 3 | #4,999 |
| 2011 | 3 | #4,837 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 3 | #4,691 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 1 | #4,138 |
How popular is Huckleberry in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 12,003rd among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 340,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 31% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 5 boys in the US were named Huckleberry, making it the 12,003rd most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,062nd. Its busiest year was 2016, with 27 boys. It first appears in the records in 2006.
2025 had the fewest boys named Huckleberry since it first appeared, in 2006.
Half of all the boys named Huckleberry in the US since 1880 were born between 2012 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
Huckleberry in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #12,003 |
| 2024 | 11 | #7,252 |
| 2023 | 17 | #5,465 |
| 2022 | 15 | #5,870 |
| 2021 | 25 | #4,114 |
| 2020 | 9 | #8,062 |
| 2019 | 19 | #4,947 |
| 2018 | 20 | #4,735 |
| 2017 | 19 | #4,931 |
| 2016 | 27 | #3,882 |
| 2015 | 25 | #4,078 |
| 2014 | 22 | #4,389 |
| 2013 | 14 | #5,919 |
| 2012 | 7 | #9,703 |
| 2011 | 17 | #5,196 |
| 2010 | 9 | #8,133 |
| 2009 | 15 | #5,796 |
| 2008 | 21 | #4,537 |
| 2007 | 6 | #10,915 |
| 2006 | 6 | #10,655 |
Nicknames for Huckleberry
- Huck 82 boys in the US in 2025
Names like Huckleberry
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Hudson, Oakley, Rafferty, Marley, Harrison, Remy, Jaxon, Albie, Archer, Huxley, Henry, Finley
More English names
Lily, Evelyn, Ivy, Harper, Grace, Violet, Willow, Daisy, Poppy, Riley, Mason, Cooper, Ruby, Hallie, Hazel, Carter
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Huckleberry: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/huckleberry, updated 20 October 2026.