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I haven't really come across too many boys with H names - at least not to the point that it's overwhelming and more common than other letters. I do have a cat name Hudson, a cousin named Hunter, and a nephew named Harrison -- BUT we have like 7 M names and 10 A names in my family so 3 is still a minority.

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And I actually like surnames on boys. Most of the traditional names used for men are surnames as well - Robert(s), Michael(s), Samuel(s), Lawrence, Alexander, Andrew(s)...so it's nothing new.

There hasn't been much of an H trend in my area. I only know one Holden in that younger age group.

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I don't love the surname trend, though I see it just as often on girls (a Windham and a McLaren just the other day) but I am considering one if we have another boy, so clearly I'm not that annoyed.

I see H names a lot, but not necessarily the ones you mentioned. Names like Harvey (my grandfather’s name) and Hugo I only see on older men. The H names that get used seem to be two-syllable surnames like Hudson, Hunter, and Halen.

I’m mostly sick of Kaden and all it’s variants. At the school I work at there is a Kaden, a Kaeden, a Caiden, and there is at least another one that I’m not sure of the spelling.

I disagree with the first point; the only H names I think are really popular are Hunter, Henry and Hudson... Harrison is getting there but I still like a lot of H names.
The second one I 100% agree with. I'll also add the surnames on girls, which is even more annoying in my opinion.

When I worked for the window company, we had to file the completed orders in a separate room by surname and there were so many H surnames. The H shelf was always the first to fill up and everything would have to be moved. I told my coworker at the beginning of the year, maybe we should start with two H shelves. She didn't listen.
My point here being is that the trends are probably related. Surnames are popular and there are a lot of H surnames. Plus then regular H names.

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I can't get bothered about surnames. Better to dig into surnames if you're looking for something more unusual (and I think for most people having their first child, at least, unusual means "no one I know with this name") than to make something up from nowhere right?

I'm in the West Midlands, England and I can't say that I've had the same experiences as you.

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The H thing - I work in a three-form-entry primary school and across all three classes (totalling 80ish children) I can think of one Harry, and that's it for H's on either gender! My nephew who will be 1 in August is named Henry and that's about it.

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The surname thing - getting bigger in the UK but we're not there yet. Which I'm kind of glad of because (without doing the precise maths) I'd guess 80% of my boys long list are surname-names. I don't know what it is, just woke up one day loving them. Again, taking experience from my work, I can think of Aston, Bentley, Finley - one each and not much more than that!

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Whether I'm just in a very untrendy pocket or if this is reflective of much of England, I don't know! But I'll keep my eyes and ears open for these trends in months/years to come.