Americo
Americo was given to 8 boys in 2025, #8,951 among boys’ names; 2,911 Americans have been recorded with it since 1904 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,030 Americans named Americo and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (35% of everyone recorded); the median is 47 years old and half are between 28 and 62.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Americo by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Americo mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Americo is “a male given name.”
Borrowed from From Spanish Américo.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Americo?
#8,951 among boys’ names, 2025
Americo fell from #8,780 in 2015 to #8,951 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 4.2 to 4.7 per million.
106 babies in 1922, the peak
Americo peaked in 1922, when 106 boys were given it, #624 among boys’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #8,951 | under 0.01 |
| 2024 | 7 | #9,955 | under 0.01 |
| 2023 | 8 | #8,961 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 7 | #9,881 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 13 | #6,346 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 7 | #9,618 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 8 | #8,857 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 6 | #10,851 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 9 | #8,181 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 8 | #8,780 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (120)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 9 | #8,142 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 6 | #10,850 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 10 | #7,521 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 15 | #5,747 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 11 | #7,244 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 8 | #9,045 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 10 | #7,619 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 12 | #6,474 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 9 | #7,653 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 11 | #6,540 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 16 | #4,815 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 8 | #7,669 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 9 | #6,945 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 16 | #4,579 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 25 | #3,182 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 13 | #4,883 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 7 | #7,303 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 14 | #4,398 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 12 | #4,796 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 26 | #2,765 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 14 | #4,231 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 17 | #3,603 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 16 | #3,639 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 9 | #5,387 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 14 | #3,814 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 12 | #3,915 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 10 | #4,240 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 13 | #3,442 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 14 | #3,219 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 20 | #2,436 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 11 | #3,633 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 9 | #4,242 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 18 | #2,570 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 26 | #2,060 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 18 | #2,574 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 15 | #2,800 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 18 | #2,459 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 26 | #1,874 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 17 | #2,450 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 22 | #1,987 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 19 | #2,128 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 19 | #2,083 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 17 | #2,281 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 14 | #2,509 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 17 | #2,045 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 18 | #1,895 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 18 | #1,855 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 20 | #1,723 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 25 | #1,558 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 20 | #1,794 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 14 | #2,201 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 19 | #1,851 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 25 | #1,602 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 27 | #1,552 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 21 | #1,759 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 17 | #1,953 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 28 | #1,486 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 19 | #1,822 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 17 | #1,904 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 15 | #2,045 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 19 | #1,766 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 10 | #2,521 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 10 | #2,499 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 13 | #2,113 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 11 | #2,342 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 5 | #3,692 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 11 | #2,358 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,030 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 14 | #1,853 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 10 | #2,313 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 11 | #2,281 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 12 | #2,146 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 12 | #2,085 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 12 | #2,083 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 8 | #2,617 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 12 | #2,086 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 17 | #1,691 | 0.02 |
| 1936 | 17 | #1,640 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 18 | #1,657 | 0.02 |
| 1934 | 18 | #1,659 | 0.02 |
| 1933 | 21 | #1,500 | 0.02 |
| 1932 | 25 | #1,387 | 0.02 |
| 1931 | 42 | #1,032 | 0.04 |
| 1930 | 34 | #1,217 | 0.03 |
| 1929 | 74 | #729 | 0.07 |
| 1928 | 63 | #826 | 0.06 |
| 1927 | 64 | #840 | 0.06 |
| 1926 | 60 | #855 | 0.05 |
| 1925 | 79 | #730 | 0.07 |
| 1924 | 98 | #647 | 0.09 |
| 1923 | 91 | #671 | 0.08 |
| 1922 | 106 | #624 | 0.10 |
| 1921 | 104 | #623 | 0.09 |
| 1920 | 83 | #714 | 0.08 |
| 1919 | 81 | #692 | 0.08 |
| 1918 | 89 | #652 | 0.09 |
| 1917 | 104 | #581 | 0.11 |
| 1916 | 78 | #672 | 0.09 |
| 1915 | 87 | #616 | 0.10 |
| 1914 | 70 | #603 | 0.11 |
| 1913 | 47 | #649 | 0.09 |
| 1912 | 37 | #700 | 0.09 |
| 1911 | 23 | #645 | 0.10 |
| 1910 | 14 | #822 | 0.07 |
| 1909 | 9 | #1,023 | 0.05 |
| 1908 | 15 | #686 | 0.10 |
| 1907 | 9 | #931 | 0.06 |
| 1906 | 5 | #1,256 | 0.04 |
| 1905 | 5 | #1,239 | 0.04 |
| 1904 | 5 | #1,211 | 0.04 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Americo a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Americo has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 120 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Americo: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Americo, and how old are they?
1,030 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 35% of the 2,911 Americans ever recorded as Americo. The median Americo alive today is 47 years old; half are between 28 and 62.
The 2020 Census counted 2,290 people named Americo (17 women and girls, 2,273 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,095 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.1 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 50 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 215 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 273 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 218 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 183 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 89 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Americo born?
The states with the most babies named Americo are New York, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, with 63% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Massachusetts is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 404 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Massachusetts | 392 | not ranked | 4.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 186 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New Jersey | 167 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Texas | 161 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Rhode Island | 134 | not ranked | 7.9× |
| California | 45 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Connecticut | 42 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Michigan | 7 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Americo is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Americo is most over-represented in Rhode Island: since 1910 it was given 7.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Americo with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Americo
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Americo and names like it
- Compare Americo and GuidoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sAmerico peaked in 1922.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Americo since 1910.
- The top names of 1922The year the most babies were named Americo.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Americo alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with AMost given first.