Fun Facts About the Name Hutton
- 744 babies named Hutton: U.S. records list 744 babies given the name Hutton from 1880 through 2025. Even 59 girls received the name Hutton - about 1 girl for every 12 boys.
What Does the Name Hutton Mean?
Hutton is an English habitational name, taken from one of the several places in England and Scotland called Hutton. It comes from Old English hōh, meaning "heel" - used of a projecting spur or ridge of land - combined with tūn, meaning "enclosure," "farm," or "settlement." The literal sense is therefore "settlement on a spur of land" or "farm on the ridge."
A secondary explanation applies to some of the places: rather than the landscape word hōh, they may combine an Old English personal name, Hutta, with tūn, giving "Hutta's settlement." Because there are many separate villages named Hutton, different ones may have different origins, and the two derivations are not always easy to tell apart in the surviving place-name evidence.
Hutton Name History & Origins
Hutton began as a place name rather than a personal name. England has numerous villages called Hutton, concentrated in the north: Hutton in Lancashire, Hutton in Essex, Hutton Rudby and Hutton Conyers in North Yorkshire, Hutton Cranswick in the East Riding of Yorkshire, Hutton in Somerset, and several in the old county of Cumberland, including Hutton in the Lake District. Scotland has its own Hutton, in Berwickshire. Each was named independently for its own patch of ground, which is why the name is so widespread.
From these villages the surname Hutton developed in the medieval period, when people were commonly identified by the place they came from. The surname is found in English records from the Middle Ages onward, and it also became established in southern Scotland and the Borders, where the Huttons were a landed family. The Scottish geologist James Hutton, whose work in the late eighteenth century shaped modern geology, is the best-known historical bearer of the surname.
Hutton has also been used, though not commonly, as a given name, mainly in the United States, where surnames are often adopted as first names. That usage is a transferred use of the family name rather than a separate tradition with its own meaning.
How Popular is the Name Hutton?
Hutton has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2025. Its best rank was #2,169 in 2025.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #8,050 | 13 | 0.0008% |
| 2024 | #10,549 | 9 | 0.0006% |
| 2023 | #11,568 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 2022 | #14,223 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 2018 | #16,588 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2015 | #13,532 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2012 | #17,850 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2011 | #15,535 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #2,169 | 66 | 0.0039% |
| 2024 | #2,569 | 52 | 0.0030% |
| 2023 | #2,372 | 58 | 0.0034% |
| 2022 | #2,501 | 55 | 0.0032% |
| 2021 | #2,536 | 52 | 0.0030% |
| 2020 | #3,365 | 33 | 0.0019% |
| 2019 | #4,268 | 24 | 0.0013% |
| 2018 | #3,562 | 31 | 0.0017% |
| 2017 | #5,901 | 15 | 0.0008% |
| 2016 | #5,009 | 19 | 0.0010% |
| 2015 | #3,545 | 31 | 0.0016% |
| 2014 | #5,132 | 18 | 0.0009% |
| 2013 | #5,490 | 16 | 0.0008% |
| 2012 | #3,939 | 26 | 0.0014% |
| 2011 | #5,515 | 16 | 0.0008% |
| 2010 | #5,578 | 16 | 0.0008% |
| 2009 | #7,915 | 10 | 0.0005% |
| 2008 | #6,543 | 13 | 0.0006% |
| 2007 | #5,756 | 15 | 0.0007% |
| 2006 | #9,024 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 2005 | #5,681 | 14 | 0.0007% |
| 2004 | #3,918 | 23 | 0.0012% |
| 2003 | #6,914 | 10 | 0.0005% |
| 2002 | #7,259 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2001 | #7,817 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 2000 | #7,045 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 1999 | #6,210 | 10 | 0.0005% |
| 1998 | #10,228 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1997 | #8,568 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1995 | #9,390 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1993 | #7,103 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1987 | #7,408 | 5 | 0.0003% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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