Apolinar
Apolinar was given to 7 boys in 2025, #9,782 among boys’ names; 1,304 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Apolinar by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Apolinar mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Apolinar is “a male given name” Its etymology gives the sense “of Apollo” (literally).
Borrowed from Latin Apollināris (literally “of Apollo”).
/apoliˈnaɾ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Apolinar?
#9,782 among boys’ names, 2025
Apolinar rose from #10,751 in 2015 to #9,782 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 3.1 to 4.1 per million.
32 babies in 1927, the peak
Apolinar peaked in 1927, when 32 babies were given it (27 boys, #1,437 among boys’ names). The 7 births of 2025 are 22% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #9,782 | 4.1 |
| 2023 | 5 | #12,379 | 2.9 |
| 2021 | 5 | #12,271 | 2.9 |
| 2020 | 5 | #12,154 | 2.9 |
| 2018 | 9 | #8,198 | 5.0 |
| 2015 | 6 | #10,751 | 3.1 |
| 2013 | 9 | #8,150 | 4.8 |
| 2012 | 7 | #9,772 | 3.7 |
| 2011 | 12 | #6,598 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 7 | #9,746 | 3.6 |
Every recorded year (102)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 9 | #8,339 | 4.5 |
| 2008 | 8 | #9,060 | 3.9 |
| 2007 | 21 | #4,505 | 10.1 |
| 2006 | 17 | #5,088 | 8.3 |
| 2005 | 14 | #5,584 | 7.0 |
| 2004 | 11 | #6,553 | 5.5 |
| 2003 | 5 | #10,989 | 2.5 |
| 2002 | 16 | #4,712 | 8.2 |
| 2001 | 25 | #3,412 | 12.9 |
| 2000 | 9 | #6,873 | 4.6 |
| 1999 | 17 | #4,161 | 8.9 |
| 1998 | 16 | #4,207 | 8.4 |
| 1997 | 11 | #5,297 | 5.8 |
| 1996 | 11 | #5,201 | 5.8 |
| 1995 | 21 | #3,192 | 11.0 |
| 1994 | 26 | #2,768 | 13.5 |
| 1993 | 11 | #5,020 | 5.6 |
| 1992 | 17 | #3,605 | 8.5 |
| 1991 | 16 | #3,643 | 7.9 |
| 1990 | 13 | #4,176 | 6.3 |
| 1989 | 16 | #3,453 | 8.0 |
| 1988 | 16 | #3,204 | 8.4 |
| 1987 | 11 | #3,978 | 5.9 |
| 1986 | 8 | #4,868 | 4.3 |
| 1985 | 20 | #2,507 | 10.8 |
| 1984 | 17 | #2,708 | 9.4 |
| 1983 | 17 | #2,680 | 9.5 |
| 1982 | 16 | #2,840 | 8.8 |
| 1981 | 28 | #1,945 | 15.6 |
| 1980 | 18 | #2,618 | 10.1 |
| 1979 | 18 | #2,576 | 10.5 |
| 1978 | 18 | #2,479 | 11.0 |
| 1977 | 10 | #3,621 | 6.1 |
| 1976 | 10 | #3,484 | 6.4 |
| 1975 | 13 | #2,909 | 8.3 |
| 1974 | 14 | #2,677 | 8.9 |
| 1973 | 14 | #2,609 | 9.0 |
| 1972 | 9 | #3,361 | 5.6 |
| 1971 | 6 | #4,407 | 3.4 |
| 1970 | 7 | #3,864 | 3.8 |
| 1969 | 9 | #3,075 | 5.0 |
| 1968 | 9 | #2,915 | 5.2 |
| 1967 | 6 | #3,580 | 3.4 |
| 1966 | 8 | #2,994 | 4.5 |
| 1965 | 10 | #2,627 | 5.4 |
| 1964 | 6 | #3,617 | 3.0 |
| 1963 | 10 | #2,677 | 4.9 |
| 1962 | 12 | #2,367 | 5.8 |
| 1961 | 18 | #1,952 | 8.5 |
| 1960 | 8 | #3,090 | 3.8 |
| 1959 | 8 | #3,044 | 3.7 |
| 1958 | 14 | #2,179 | 6.6 |
| 1957 | 7 | #3,268 | 3.2 |
| 1956 | 19 | #1,825 | 9.0 |
| 1955 | 10 | #2,570 | 4.9 |
| 1954 | 13 | #2,209 | 6.4 |
| 1953 | 16 | #1,960 | 8.1 |
| 1952 | 14 | #2,077 | 7.2 |
| 1951 | 21 | #1,642 | 11.2 |
| 1950 | 14 | #2,025 | 7.8 |
| 1949 | 12 | #2,227 | 6.8 |
| 1948 | 9 | #2,613 | 5.1 |
| 1947 | 17 | #1,851 | 9.3 |
| 1946 | 15 | #1,886 | 9.2 |
| 1945 | 9 | #2,401 | 6.7 |
| 1944 | 7 | #2,870 | 5.1 |
| 1943 | 10 | #2,410 | 7.0 |
| 1942 | 12 | #2,149 | 8.7 |
| 1941 | 13 | #2,001 | 10.6 |
| 1940 | 5 | #3,473 | 4.3 |
| 1938 | 11 | #2,188 | 9.9 |
| 1937 | 11 | #2,206 | 10.3 |
| 1936 | 14 | #1,875 | 13.5 |
| 1935 | 19 | #1,587 | 18.2 |
| 1934 | 27 | #1,293 | 26.1 |
| 1933 | 8 | #2,748 | 8.1 |
| 1932 | 14 | #2,001 | 13.4 |
| 1931 | 12 | #2,213 | 11.5 |
| 1930 | 16 | #1,891 | 14.6 |
| 1929 | 17 | #1,848 | 15.8 |
| 1928 | 11 | #2,525 | 9.9 |
| 1927 | 27 | #1,437 | 24.0 |
| 1926 | 20 | #1,724 | 18.0 |
| 1925 | 15 | #2,095 | 13.4 |
| 1924 | 14 | #2,237 | 12.4 |
| 1923 | 16 | #2,023 | 14.6 |
| 1922 | 10 | #2,806 | 9.2 |
| 1921 | 12 | #2,504 | 10.9 |
| 1920 | 13 | #2,342 | 12.2 |
| 1918 | 6 | #3,751 | 5.9 |
| 1916 | 6 | #3,530 | 6.7 |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,095 | 8.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Apolinar a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Apolinar has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 102 years of records.
Girls and boys named Apolinar: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Apolinar, and how old are they?
An estimated 851 Americans named Apolinar and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (65% of everyone recorded); the median is 42 years old and half are between 27 and 59. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 3,741 people named Apolinar (133 women and girls, 3,608 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 901 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.2 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.
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 Apolinar born?
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 524 | not ranked | 5.6× |
| California | 187 | not ranked | 1.5× |
Where Apolinar is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Apolinar is most over-represented in Texas: since 1915 it was given 5.6 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 Apolinar 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 Apolinar
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 Apolinar and names like it
- Compare Apolinar and BaldomeroBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sApolinar peaked in 1927.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Apolinar since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Apolinar: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1927The year the most babies were named Apolinar.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Apolinar alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with AMost given first.