Given name & surname
Huy
“a bright or glorious man”
Huy is used as a given name and a surname. One Vietnamese interpretation is “a bright or glorious man.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Vietnamese interpretation is “a bright or glorious man.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Vietnamese.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1975. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Huy through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,715
- 1,715 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1982
- 82 babies
- 2025
- 10
- #7,874 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −20%
- Easing
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 10 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 7,874 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 20.0% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 82 in 1982. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 9,013 as a first name in 2020; 662 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.
People named Huy
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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