Meaning & Origin
A small round fruit of a dark blue or red color, of several plants in the related genera Vaccinium and Gaylussacia.
Huckleberry is a boy's baby name of Old English origin, from the American English huckleberry (a wild berry related to the blueberry), possibly from the Old English hurtleberry (whortleberry), meaning 'huckleberry' — a distinctly American nature name forever associated with Mark Twain's most beloved character.
With over 304 recorded births, Huckleberry will always be Huck Finn — the irrepressible, moral, freedom-loving boy of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), widely considered the first great American novel. Huck's journey down the Mississippi with Jim, his moral growth, his rejection of the corrupt society around him, and his famous declaration 'I'll go to hell' rather than betray a friend — all of this is embedded in the name. Short form: Huck.