first name
HECTOR
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 168,413 people named Hector, 96.7% reported their origin as Hispanic or Latino and 1.9% as White. Virtually all are male (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Hector peaked in 2005, when 2,458 babies got the name.
At least 109,209 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Hector by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #333. The largest share of babies named Hector, 28.2%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Hector is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Hector has been most common in Arizona (3.5×), Texas (3.4×), and California (2.9×), and least common in Kentucky (0.06×).
104,986 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
Either side of Hector
Spelled almost the same
2 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Hector, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Hector ranks #7,349 of 156,621, with 4,373 people. See Hector as a last name
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