Given name & surname
Hoyte
“a soulful man”
Hoyte is used as a given name and a surname. One interpretation is “a soulful man.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One interpretation is “a soulful man.”
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1915. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Hoyte through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 262
- 262 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1935
- 14 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1961. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 14 in 1935. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 110 as a first name in 2020; 1,084 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Hoyte’s family of names
Hoyte has a related form in Hoyt. Hoyte has a related form in Hoice. Hoyte has a related form in Hoit.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Hoyte
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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