male NAME · CURRENTLY #9204

Hamlet

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“From the English word “hamlet,” meaning “small village”; also the name of Shakespeare’s tragic prince.”

A literary masculine name most strongly associated with Shakespeare's tragedy.

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How Hamlet has traveled through time

51915 61980 61995 72000 72005 92010 62015 82025
LATEST YEAR20258 births
PEAK RANK#1624in 1911
CURRENT USAGE0% F100% M

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration. SSA excludes names with fewer than five occurrences in a geographic area.

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