Hoke
Recorded 1900–2021 · United States
Hoke was most popular in 1910, when 19 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,622 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 622 people named Hoke.
Hoke over time
How old is the name Hoke?
Hoke first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1900, which makes it about 125 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 63 of the 126 years since.
How many people are named Hoke?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 622 American births named Hoke between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 150 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Hoke in 2025?
Hoke was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Hoke getting more or less popular?
Hoke is too rare for a direction to mean much. It averaged 6 births a year across 2021–2025 against 5 a year a decade earlier — at these counts a single baby moves the percentage, and any year under five births is withheld at source.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Hoke a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Hoke is a boy’s name — 0.0% of the 622 Americans given it were girls and 100.0% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 0% girls and 100% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Hoke?
Roughly 150 Americans named Hoke are alive today — 24% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 72 years old, and half are between 58 and 82.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Hoke is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org