Apollo
Apollo was given to 708 boys in 2025, #445 among boys’ names; 9,012 Americans have been recorded with it since 1965 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 8,910 Americans named Apollo and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 4 and 11.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Apollo by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Apollo mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Apollo is “a male given name.”
From Latin Apollō, from Ancient Greek Ἀπόλλων (Apóllōn).
/əˈpɑloʊ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Apollo?
#445 among boys’ names, 2025
Apollo rose from #749 in 2015 to #445 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.17 to 0.41 per 1,000.
820 babies in 2022, the peak
Apollo peaked in 2022, when 820 boys were given it, #389 among boys’ names. The 708 births of 2025 are 86% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 708 | #445 | 0.41 |
| 2024 | 781 | #413 | 0.45 |
| 2023 | 718 | #434 | 0.42 |
| 2022 | 820 | #389 | 0.47 |
| 2021 | 787 | #397 | 0.45 |
| 2020 | 666 | #448 | 0.39 |
| 2019 | 590 | #489 | 0.33 |
| 2018 | 552 | #512 | 0.30 |
| 2017 | 529 | #535 | 0.29 |
| 2016 | 470 | #586 | 0.25 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 323 | #749 | 0.17 |
| 2014 | 288 | #796 | 0.15 |
| 2013 | 205 | #975 | 0.11 |
| 2012 | 203 | #983 | 0.11 |
| 2011 | 143 | #1,219 | 0.08 |
| 2010 | 142 | #1,241 | 0.07 |
| 2009 | 80 | #1,840 | 0.04 |
| 2008 | 80 | #1,825 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 93 | #1,650 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 72 | #1,876 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 43 | #2,565 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 38 | #2,742 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 31 | #3,043 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 48 | #2,193 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 12 | #5,685 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 15 | #4,794 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 19 | #3,842 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 20 | #3,597 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 9 | #6,117 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 9 | #6,004 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 12 | #4,801 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 9 | #5,891 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 7 | #6,853 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 14 | #4,116 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 23 | #2,826 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 22 | #2,863 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 15 | #3,622 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 21 | #2,685 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 28 | #2,114 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 41 | #1,589 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 30 | #1,917 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 22 | #2,295 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 24 | #2,141 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 39 | #1,567 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 20 | #2,421 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 23 | #2,218 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 46 | #1,372 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 26 | #1,917 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 7 | #4,612 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 6 | #4,965 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 8 | #3,964 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 8 | #3,860 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 12 | #2,859 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 8 | #3,636 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 14 | #2,570 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 15 | #2,219 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 6 | #3,552 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Apollo a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Apollo has been given almost only to boys: 12 girls in 57 years of records.
Girls and boys named Apollo: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Apollo, and how old are they?
8,910 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 9,012 Americans ever recorded as Apollo. The median Apollo alive today is 6 years old; half are between 4 and 11.
The 2020 Census counted 4,301 people named Apollo (48 women and girls, 4,253 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,631 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 162 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 318 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,040 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 7,400 |
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 Apollo born?
The states with the most babies named Apollo are California, Texas and Florida, with 32% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 94 | #368 | 1.2× |
| Texas | 72 | #462 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 53 | #369 | 0.9× |
| New York | 38 | #449 | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 26 | #398 | 0.7× |
| Washington | 24 | #310 | 1.5× |
| Georgia | 23 | #464 | 0.6× |
| New Jersey | 22 | #364 | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 21 | #409 | 0.9× |
| Colorado | 21 | #307 | 1.4× |
Where Apollo is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Apollo is most over-represented in Nevada: since 1965 it was given 1.6 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 Apollo with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 9,264 babies since 1880, Apollo is the most given (97% of them). In 2025 it was given to 708 of their 733 babies (97%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Apollo
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 Apollo and names like it
- Compare Apollo and ApoloBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sApollo peaked in 2022.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Apollo since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Apollo.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Apollo alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.